LOUISVILLE —
A host of requests for funding designated to the Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency were approved at the group’s meeting Thursday.
KIPDA’s Transportation Policy Committee approved for Clark and Floyd counties $2.8 million in Surface Transportation Project funds, $117,600 for the Specialized Capital Assistance Program and $1 million in Congestion Mitigation Air Quality funds designated to the metropolitan planning organization by the Indiana Department of Transportation. The funds designated were federal dollars the state receives annually.
KIPDA Transportation Planner Mary Hauber presented minor changes to surface transportation projects, which encompasses projects slated for construction from 2011 to 2015. Nearly all of the changes made moved money into a later fiscal year.
Among the changes were moving $870,000 in federal funds from 2011 to 2012, to pay for engineering and right-of-way work; moving $225,000 and $1.8 million of federal dollars for design and construction, respectively, for Market and Spring streets in New Albany to 2012 and 2013; moving $1.5 million in federal dollars for construction costs for Ohio River Greenway into fiscal 2012; and moving $520,000 worth of federal construction dollars for turn lanes and traffic signals at 10th Street and Thompson Lane in Jeffersonville into 2012.
A total of $117,600 of federal money for four vehicles was designated to LifeSpan Resources, Volunteers of America, Rauch Inc. and New Hope Services. The money comes through the state’s Capital Assistance Program, which grants funding for transportation projects for elderly and disabled individuals.
The third chunk of federal dollars being passed along by the state totaled $1 million in Congestion Mitigation Air Quality funds, which are designed to improve air quality in a region. Among the project recipients were an Ind. 111 pedestrian walkway and the Ohio River Greenway, totaling $1.12 million and $1 million, respectively.
In other business
• Clarksville Council Administrator Patricia Fraser was elected to serve as the vice chairperson for the Transportation Policy Committee. Shively, Ky., Mayor Sherry Conner is serving as the committee’s chairperson.
Clark County
KIPDA designates federal funds
INDOT passed along nearly $4 million in federal transportation funding
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