By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council on Tuesday approved its 2021 arterial street maintenance project.
"The purpose of these projects are to extend the life of our streets, in order to minimize more major rehabilitation or reconstruction of a city street," said Jeff Peterson, Director of Engineering. "Spending one dollar on the preservation of our streets at the right time can delay or eliminate spending six to ten dollars on future more major rehabilitation or reconstruction."
The amount of money from state sources for the arterial portion is slightly up this year.
"We have $1,667,000 for the arterial street project," Peterson said. "Of that, it comes from several sources, of course, federal fund exchange, which is larger this year because they rebalanced their funding between cities and counties. KDOT's amount of that is higher this year than normal. Usually, it's about $400,000. Then, we have of course, the quarter-cent sales tax, which goes to street funding but also goes to support the Cosmosphere and Strataca as well and then $250,000 from the growth fund."
Overall, between residential and arterial streets, the amount is virtually identical to last year.
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