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Brown County Road Project Completed

By Greg Bebermeyer

02/04/2014

Brown County Courthouse

(KNZA)--A Brown County road improvement project has been successfully completed.

A public hearing was held during the Brown County Commission meeting Monday regarding the project in Hamlin Township.

A $127,600 Community Development Block grant was awarded from the Kansas Department of Commerce last year to hard-surface a one-mile stretch of Goldfinch Road from 290th to 300th Roads. The project also included clearing drainage ditches and the replacement of three drainage tubes.

The project allowed for the expansion of two businesses located in the 29-hundred block of Goldfinch Road—Grimm’s Gardens and Midwest Irrigation Services.

As part of the requirements of the grant, the businesses were to create 4.5 new full-time jobs. Grant administrator Donna Crawford says the businesses went above what was required, creating about 9 new jobs.

Crawford said the businesses will repay the CDBG program 25 percent of the project cost, or nearly $32,000, over a ten-year period. The first payment is due in December of this year.

Following the hearing drawing no public comments, the commission voted to close out the project.

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