Political back-and-forth in Washington over federal transportation funding has given Hall County road planners fits as they try to cast an eye toward much-needed future work. “How do we plan for 25 years into the future when we don’t even know what will happen to transportation funding in summer of 2015?” said Sam I. Baker, senior transportation planner of the Gainesville-Hall Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Hall area’s main transportation planning agency, The county has hired Pond & Co. of Norcross to help develop a long-range transportation plan for the Hall area. Officials must develop a “financially constrained” plan by August 2015, meaning projected expenses must meet projected revenues.