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Sumner County moves to apply for SS4V roadway and safety grant with $95,000 local match
Summary
County commissioners voted to let highway staff apply for an SS4V grant that would fund a roadway inspection asset-management system and a comprehensive safety action plan; the application seeks roughly $475,000 with an 80/20 split requiring about $95,000 in local matching funds if awarded.
Sumner County commissioners voted May 5 to allow county highway staff to apply for a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded SS4V grant that would fund a roadway asset-management system and a comprehensive safety action plan.
The application the highway department proposed would seek roughly $475,000 in grant funding, an 80/20 split that would require the county to provide about $95,000 if the grant is awarded, Highway Department representative Mister Ellis said. “What I’m asking for is like 475,000,” Ellis said during the meeting. He added that grant awards can be as large as $5,000,000 for jurisdictions that choose larger projects.
The nut of the request is two linked projects: a comprehensive safety action plan (estimated at about $175,000) that would gather EMS, emergency management, schools and law enforcement to…
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