(Audubon) A special meeting of the Audubon City Council was held Monday to approve financing of a bridge project.
The bridge near the fairgrounds on North Division Street is being replaced. It’s a $1.4 million project. “We get up to $1 Million worth of funding and it came out to be pretty close to $1.4 Million so we were bonding for $.4 Million. It was discussed with our financial adviser that since we were doing this we had another obligation out there from 2012 that we could take the opportunity to refinance to a lower interest. We went ahead and did that so the total was just under $1 million to re-do all that.”
City Clerk Joe Foran says the work is expected to be completed by May. “The contractor is already starting work on it. Just to the north we are going to have a temporary bridge area put up because we have heavy truck traffic that has to go through plus the contractor has a crane that has to go back and forth so people can use that instead of the bridge.”
Also at Monday’s meeting the council discussed a sidewalk replacement program. “The council is going to start creating a repair and replacement fund. Residents can apply for funding and it will help to assist in repairing or replacing parts of their sidewalk.”
Foran says specifics of the process are still to be determined.
