The Granite Shoals City Council on Tuesday night, March 8, resolved to pursue grant support for a $5 million street improvement project.
The council authorized City Manager Ken Nickel to proceed with an application to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a grant to repair Phillips Ranch Road and Prairie Creek Road to a standard equal to Ranch to Market Road 1431.
The city is preparing to celebrate for its 50th Anniversary Bash, April 23-24, as citizens travel streets that pre-date its incorporation. Surveys identified those streets as a high prioriity and the council was already involved in public forums and traffic and engineering studies when it was learned a grant might be available.
Unable to pass by the opportunity for a grant that pay 55 percent of a project, a grant application will be submitted, even as the council strategize ways to pay for the project, even at less than half price.
