OTTUMWA —
An annual required report shows that the state’s Road Use Tax Fund brought nearly $2.4 million to Ottumwa last year, all of it going toward street construction.
The City Council will vote next week to approve the Street Financial Report for fiscal year 2012.
Iowa statute requires cities to file the report in order to continue receiving Road Use Tax funding.
“We’ve been doing about four miles of streets for the last couple years,” said City Administrator Joe Helfenberger. “We’re trying to be very aggressive on streets because seven to eight years ago, we only did a fraction of what we’ve been doing in the last few years.”
In the last fiscal year, the city received $2,373,459 from the fund, more than half of the nearly $4 million the city spent on street construction.
The state’s gas tax feeds into the Road Use Tax Fund. The state charges 21 cents per gallon of unleaded gasoline, 19 cents per gallon of ethanol-blended gasolines and 22.5 cents per gallon of diesel.
Streets that went under construction last fiscal year were Fourth Street, Davis Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Oak Meadow Drive, Wildwood Drive, Brentwood Drive, Iowa Avenue and sections of East Highland Avenue and Marilyn Road.
Bridges that benefited from the funds were Milner Street, Blackhawk, Jefferson Street and South Davis Street bridges.
Also completed last year was the FAA-required 150th Street relocation project at the Ottumwa Regional Airport and nearly $48,000 toward the Expanded Street Repair program.
Also on the agenda:
• Approve the plans, specifications, form of contract and estimated cost of the Hangar Construction Project at the airport. Engineers estimate the project will cost $177,530, though an Iowa Department of Transportation GAVI grant will reimburse the city 80 percent of the project cost, up to $135,200.
• Approve the proposal from Snyder and Associates, Inc. for professional services for the airport for more than $27,000.
• Award the contract for South Street sewer repair east of Madison Avenue to C&J Bulldozing LLC, of Eddyville, for $23,050 for sewer repair on South Street east of Madison Avenue.
The council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers at City Hall. The meeting will air live on GO-TV, cable channel 6.
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