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Olive Branch approves $4.5 million Kraft Road widening with DeSoto County cost share
Summary
The board approved a joint city-county agreement to widen Kraft Road, with DeSoto County contributing $2 million and the city responsible for management and the remainder of the estimated $4.5 million project.
The Olive Branch Board of Aldermen approved a partnership with DeSoto County on a Kraft Road widening project, voting to accept the county's offer to contribute $2 million toward an estimated $4.5 million build.
Under the agreement, the city will manage the project, advertise bids and pay the remaining estimated $2.5 million; the county's $2 million contribution covers part of the work inside the city's jurisdiction. The project would extend five-lane sections of Kraft Road northward to just south of College Road to improve school-area traffic flow and increase capacity along a growing north–south corridor.
City staff described the measure as a strategic step toward extending Kraft Road five lanes from MS-302 toward I‑269 over time. The board approved the agreement after a motion by Alderman Wallace and a second by Alderman Collins. The motion carried by voice vote; the transcript does not record a roll-call tally of individual named votes.
The city will be responsible for contract overruns and project management. Bids will be issued under the city's procurement process; the timeline for advertisement and construction was not specified in the discussion recorded on the transcript.
