(Audubon) An ARISE Grant is being applied for by the Audubon County Board of Supervisors.
Chairman Doug Sorensen explains they are seeking assistance with an 800 foot stretch of road off of Highway 44. “At the Landus Co-Op sight down by Hamlin there is going to be a feed mill in there and the trucking volume is going to nearly triple when the feed mill is built. So we are talking about building 800 feet of concrete road off of Highway 44 to the North to accommodate all that trucking traffic.”
It’s nearly an $800,000 project. “We put in for an ARISE Grant to cover 80% of that. There’s absolutely not guarantee we will get that, but because of the job creation we could qualify which would be a great help.”
In other Supervisors news, Sorensen says Casey Mutual Telephone Company submitted a utility permit application. “They are coming into Audubon County on the East side so we approved the utility permit to do some boring for fiber optic cable East of Pheasant Avenue in Viola Township and East of Quail Avenue in Melville Township, but they have much bigger plans. It’s certainly a good development for Audubon County.”
The plans eventually include going all the way to the city limits of Audubon.
