PHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Janet Napolitano says she's not giving up on short-circuited ballot measures on transportation funding and state trust land.

The two measures won't be on the November ballot because a judge ruled that supporters missed a deadline to challenge a state official's decision to throw out some initiative petitions.

Napolitano says supporters will "go back, retool, rethink (and) look at who we've got to work with" to advance the proposals.

She says the very least the Legislature should do is hold hearings this winter.

The transportation measure proposed raising the state sales tax by a penny on the dollar to pay for highway construction, rail service and transit. The trust land proposal would have set aside 570,000 acres for conservation as open space.

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