State Representative Susan Williams Gifford, R-Wareham, announced on Friday that Wareham will receive $149,524 in additional funding for road and bridge repairs as part of the supplemental budget for Fiscal Year 2018.

The funding will be paid out as part of a $40 million appropriation for the state’s Chapter 90 program included in the supplemental spending bill, which was signed into law on Oct. 23 by Governor Charlie Baker. 

Established by the Legislature in 1973, Chapter 90 distributes funding to cities and towns across Massachusetts on an annual basis using a formula that is based on the weighted average of a municipality’s population, employment and total road miles.

The money is paid out as reimbursements to communities with qualifying infrastructure work. Chapter 90 funds can be spent on a variety of municipal roadway projects, including resurfacing, drainage, sidewalks, guardrails, traffic control, right-of-way acquisition and street lighting. The funding can also be used for bikeways, landscaping and the planting of trees.

Wareham previously received $747,619 in Chapter 90 funding under a $200 million bond bill that was approved by the House and Senate back in April, bringing the town’s total funding for the year to $897,143.

This supplemental budget also contains $15 million in grant funding for two school safety initiatives, including $7.5 million for implementing security upgrades in the state’s K-12 public schools and another $7.5 million for schools to hire mental health and behavioral health specialists.

An additional $5 million has been allocated to help school districts with high concentrations of low-income students to carry out targeted intervention programs and turnaround efforts to address student achievement gaps.

This budget also authorizes $10 million for local clean drinking water projects and a $10 million transfer to the Community Preservation Act Trust Fund.

“This is great news for our cities and towns,” Gifford said. “The supplemental budget not only provides funding assistance for local transportation infrastructure needs, but it also takes steps to help communities address many other critical issues, including education, school safety, clean drinking water, and open space preservation.”