By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
A number of street projects are on the horizon in Great Bend. City Administrator Logan Burns updated the Great Bend City Council Monday night about repairs to potholes near the McKinley Street entrance to The University of Kansas Health System hospital. After getting pulled off the project last week, city crews will pick back up on that section of McKinley.
A federal and state-funded City Connecting Link Improvement Program (C-CLIP) will begin this month as well.
"The C-Clip project includes 10th & Patton and 2nd Street & Main," said Burns. "They're still looking to start around May 19. That could be delayed because we're waiting on some rebar to show up. It could be the week following. We'll see how that goes."
Venture Corporation will handle the $477,328.20 C-CLIP project with the state paying for 90% of the project. The project limits are Main, from the bridge to 2nd Street. On Patton, the project will go from 10th Street to 9th Street.
Burns also said the Kansas Department of Transportation has a pre-construction meeting on May 15 for the traffic signal project at the intersection of 10th Street and McKinley. Dedicated left-turn signals will be coming to all the traffic lights at 10th and McKinley. KDOT still plans to have this project done before the end of the year.