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RSAC hears plan to revive road capital-project book; members question value without funding
Summary
Fairbanks North Star Borough staff described how the borough scores and ranks service-area capital projects and suggested producing a periodic project-request book. Committee members said the effort may be impractical while money is scarce and debated whether the Assembly Road Service Area Committee should continue.
Fairbanks — At a Jan. 13 meeting of the Assembly Road Service Area Committee, Michael Bradley, rural services manager for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, outlined the borough’s process for collecting, scoring and ranking service-area capital improvement project requests and proposed periodically publishing a project-request book to support requests to the Assembly and the mayor’s office.
Bradley said the borough last ran a version of the process in 2022 and that staff used to publish a project-request book (the last published in 2018). He told the committee the last state funding the borough received specifically for service-area projects was about 2013 and recommended the borough consider asking for projects and rescoring them every five years so the interior delegation and Assembly would have a compiled list to review.
The proposal matters because,…
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