By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
Armed with a quarter-cent sales tax, the City of Great Bend has plans established for their 2024 fiscal year street repairs. The designated sales tax finances the costs of construction, reconstruction and maintaining public streets. This year’s balance is $1.3 million and includes chip and seal projects with $950,000 for residential streets.
Public Works Director Jason
Cauley said one of the focuses for the 2024 repairs includes the 281 Bypass.
"After five years of the Bypass being done, it never got capped," said Cauley. "We're going to look at that before it completely falls apart. I don't know if you've been down the Bypass lately but it's in pretty bad shape. That's like $600,000 just to do that by itself."
Cauley added other 2024 repairs will include a section of Harrison Street and 24th
Street, in front of the closed Stoneridge Country Club.
This year’s projects were the reconstruction of McKinley as well as edge mill
and overlay in the southeast part of town.