Wonder Where the Stimulus Funds Will Go? Kerr County Seeks Funds – Article, MySA.com
January 27th, 2009 categories: Assessing the Local Market
Will the Government Stimulus Plan help the Texas Hill Country economy? Kerr County is seeking to get its hand in the government’s bag. Here’s an article from MySa.com on the subject:
Kerr Seeks Stimulus Funds
KERRVILLE — Kerr County Commissioners on Monday proposed about $25 million in capital improvement projects to be considered for funding in the federal economic stimulus package that’s taking shape.
A $6 million expansion and upgrade of the Hill Country Youth Exhibit Center topped the prioritized list prepared at the request of U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio.
About $600,000 is needed to install high-pressure water pipes to the city-county airport on Texas 27 to cure firefighting readiness problems that have stymied new development there.
Next is $13 million to install sewer pipes in Center Point to be connected to a treatment plant in Comfort or Kerrville.
“We’re talking about pumping poo-poo here and it being part of a federal stimulus program,” mused Commissioner Buster Baldwin. “It fits.”
Commissioners also want $300,000 to repair dams at Ingram Lake and Flatrock Lake, and $5 million to replace bridges, through the Texas Department of Transportation
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