Kenmore News: City Awarded $2.1 Million in Grant Funding for New Sidewalks

City of Kenmore Washington sent this bulletin at 03/25/2015 06:57 PM PDT

News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Media Contact:

Leslie Harris, Public Information Officer

lharris@kenmorewa.gov / 425.398.8900


 

City of Kenmore Awarded $2.1 Million in Grant Funding for New Sidewalks

 

KENMORE, Wash. (March 25, 2015) – The City of Kenmore was recently awarded $2.165 million in grant funding by the Puget Sound Regional Council, King County, Washington State Department of Transportation, and the State Transportation Improvement Board for new sidewalks.

 

At their February 23 meeting, the Kenmore City Council amended the Capital Improvement Program to add the new sidewalk projects and allocate the grant’s local match requirement of $556,000. City funding for the new sidewalk projects is dedicated from the Street Fund and Strategic Opportunities Fund. The new sidewalks will be constructed in phases over the next couple of years.

 

“The City continues to aggressively pursue grant funding to complete safety projects that will enhance facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists and other modes of alternative transportation,” said Mayor David Baker.

 

The new sidewalk locations are:

Sidewalk Locations*

Total Project Costs

1. South side of NE 181st St from 68th to 73rd Ave

$597,306

2. North Side of NE 181st St from 68th to 73rd Ave

$277,524

3. NE 202nd St from 68th Ave NE to Kenmore Jr. HS
(pending State Legislature approval)

$1,017,570

4. 62nd Ave NE from NE 181st St to NE 187th St

$828,000

 

Total: $2,720,400


*See attached map for approx. locations

 

The grant for the NE 202nd Street sidewalk project is secured pending State Legislature approval this year. The City applied but was not successful in securing grant funding for sidewalks along NE 155th Street between Inglemoor High School and Moorlands Elementary and also 68th Avenue NE between NE 170th Street and the Sammamish River.

For additional information, contact Public Works Director Kris Overleese at koverleese@kenmorewa.gov.

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