The federal government is contributing about $25 million, Henrico County is paying $400,000 and the city’s share is about $7.6 million. Those figures won’t change and neither will the scope of the project, said Mitchell, who added that the state will assume any additional costs.

“Their contributions are going to be fixed,” she said. “This is such an important project for the Richmond area. ... We want to make sure that it’s still built and that it’s built according to plan. ... We will continue to look at potential savings across the project budget but in terms of making a major change to the project scope, we’re not contemplating that right now.”

Where that additional money will come from remained unclear. The department expects to have the final cost and funding streams sorted out by June, when the Commonwealth Transportation Board votes on changes to the state’s Six-Year Improvement Program, which outlines transportation spending over the next six years.

“We’re still trying to identify that. It will be other transportation sources and funds,” Mitchell said, though she quickly added that the state won’t “unfund any other projects that would have otherwise gone forward” nor will it come out of any money that would have gone into projects scheduled under the HB2 scoring and prioritization process.