HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION 1988-70Suggested by~ Council
RESOLUTION NO. 88-70
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAX, ALASKA, URGXNG
TEE STATE OF ALASKA, THROUGH ITS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TO
IMMEDIATELY MOVE TO THE TOP OF THEIR PRXORXTYLISTTHE FOUR-
LAMING OF THE SPUR HIGHWAY FROM SOLDOTNA TO KENAX.
WHEREAS, over the past eight years, the Department of
TransPortation has given only minimal maintenance care to said
highway, and
~HEREAS, this highway is several years away from construction on
the present Department of Transportation*s List of major road
improvement projects in the state of Alaska, end
MHEREAS, the Spur Highway, between Soldotna and Eenai in each
successive year over the past six or seven years has increased in
traffic counts, end
WHEREAS, it is the moat heavily travelled highway on the Kenai
Peninsula even during the height of the tourist season, and even
in competition with the Sterlin~ Highway, end
WHEREAS, this is the main road that provides transportation to a
majority of the people in the sentra1Eenai Peninsula area going
to and from their workplaces on a daily basis, and
WHEREAS, it is a highway entitled to funding of which 90~ ia
£ederal and 10% is state dollars which means for every ten cents
the state spends, the federal government will provide ninety
cents.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CI~YOF
KENAI, ALASKA, that the State, through its Department of
Transportation be urged to innediately move this project to the
top of the priority list of the State of Alaska road projects in
need of major improvements on behalf of the citizens of the state
of Alaska.
PASSED-BY-THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY -OF. K~NAX-,-.ALASKA,- this .~Tth
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