Canyon County voters rejected a proposed $20 annual vehicle registration fee Tuesday that would have helped pay for local road projects, including paving work Nampa has put off. In neighboring Ada County, voters chose to keep an existing registration fee that brings in about $14 million a year.
Ada County’s fee was first approved in 1990. The Canyon County proposal would have created a new local fee and raised an estimated $4.4 million annually across the county. That would have covered about 9% of the estimated $49 million annual gap in local road funding.
Nampa Transportation Director Crystal Craig said the city planned to use its share for road maintenance it had deferred…