The City of Indianola could be about to embark on a significant street and sewer project.
Mayor Ken Featherstone said during a live event on social media this week that the city has received a dollar-for-dollar match to its original $2.2 million American Rescue Plan Act grant funding that could go toward rehabbing streets and water and sewer infrastructure.
“We received $2.2 million,” he said during the Facebook live event. “You may ask, ‘Why hasn’t anything happened up to this point. Well, the state said, ‘If you wait, there’s going to be a second round of money that’s going to be released, and Indianola and other cities will have a chance to have a dollar-for-dollar match, meaning that
we can turn that $2.2 million into $4.4 million, doing twice as many street projects.”
Featherstone confirmed the money was recently released.
“You can expect us to start on our street projects in the very near future,” he said.
Featherstone said City Engineer Ron Cassada and Gardner Engineering were already at work with city leaders in prioritizing projects.
He made note that the city currently has about 30 pump stations and at least half need rehabilitation.
“We’re working on that, and that’s part of the restoration plan,” he said.
Featherstone also said work will soon begin on a long-awaited project on B.B. King Road.
This is the sidewalk project that has been in the works for at least seven years, he said.
“It’s high time we get our kids out of the streets and onto the sidewalks, so you can expect that project to roll out very soon, this year in fact,” he said.
