City officials have given final approval to appropriate Community Crossings Matching Grant (CCMG) program funds to be used for improvements to 21 Columbus streets.
The Columbus City Council approved the second reading of an ordinance 7-0 to appropriate $1.75 million from the city’s Community Crossings fund for the upgrades.
Council members Frank Miller, R-District 4, and Jerone Wood, D-District 3 were absent.
To qualify for funding, municipalities are required to match to the amount of funds sought. The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) administers the program and offers two calls for projects each year in January in July.
City Engineer Andrew Beckort said the city applied for the full $1.5 million in January and learned in May they had been awarded about $1.49 million.
The additional $250,571 in the appropriation was left over from the second round of the 2023 Community Crossings program, Beckort told the council.
The matching funds used to come out of the city’s overlay budgets, according to Beckort.
The $250,571, combined with matching city funds for a total project amount of $501,142, will go towards improvements on the following streets:
- Flintwood Circle from Terminus to Flintwood Drive (6” Overlay)
- Eastridge Drive from Terminus to Flintwood Drive (5” Overlay)
- Tipton Lakes Blvd. from 200’ W of Acorn to Goeller Blvd (1.5” Overlay)
- Marr Road from Brent Cross to 25th Street (1.5” Overlay)
The nearly $1.5 million, combined with matching city funds for a total project amont of about $3 million will go towards improvements on the following streets:
- Lafayette Avenue from Louisville & Indiana Railroad Crossing (300’ S of 1st Street) to 2nd St. (1.5” Overlay)
- Westwood Boulevard from Pine Ridge Drive to State Road 46 (6” Overlay)
- Pine Ridge Drive from County Road 350W to Westwood Boulevard (6” Overlay)
- Repp Drive from Kiel Way to State Road 46 (Full-Depth-Reclamation)
- Marr Road from State Road 46 to Gladstone Avenue (2” Overlay)
- Gladstone Avenue from 17th Street to 10th Street (4” Overlay)
- Par 3 Drive from Rocky Ford Road to Fairlawn Drive (Full-Depth Reclamation)
- Fox Pointe Drive from Post Horn Court to 29th Street (1.5” Overlay)
- Silver Fox Drive from Fox Pointe Drive to Fox Pointe Drive (1.5” Overlay)
- Fox Pointe Court from Terminus (160’ West of Fox Pointe Dr.) to Fox Pointe Drive (1.5” Overlay)
- Fox Hollow Court from Terminus (310’ South of 29th St.) to 29th Street (1.5” Overlay)
- Northern Goshawk Drive from Osprey Drive to River Road (1.5” Overlay)
- Peregrine Drive from Terminus (150’ East of Osprey) to Northern Goshawk Drive (1.5” Overlay)
- Middle Road from Rocky Ford Road to Brentwood Drive (2” Overlay)
- Brentwood Drive from Middle Road to U.S. 31 (6” Overlay)
- Waycross Drive from 300’ West of Jolinda Drive to Jolinda Drive (Concrete Repairs)
- Sandy Hook Drive from 330’ Northeast of Jolinda Drive to Jolinda Drive (Concrete Repairs)
