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Committee OKs resolution to seek FHWA tribal bridge funding, sends measure to full council
Summary
The Cherokee Nation Community Service Committee voted to approve a resolution authorizing an application to the Federal Highway Administration for Tribal Transportation Program bridge funding and heard updates on local water and sidewalk projects.
The Cherokee Nation Community Service Committee voted June 16 to approve a resolution authorizing an application to the Federal Highway Administration for Tribal Transportation Program bridge funding and agreed to forward the measure to the full council for consideration that evening.
The resolution, introduced by Councilor Kendra McGaty during the committee’s new-business segment, passed on a voice vote after members moved and seconded the motion. Kendra McGaty said the measure would seek bridge funding through the Federal Highway Administration’s Tribal Transportation Program. “This is a resolution authorizing an application to the Federal Highway Administration for tribal transportation program bridge funding,” McGaty said when putting the item before the committee.
The vote followed reports from the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure. Michael Lynn, speaking for the department, described ongoing water and sanitation work across the reservation and noted progress on local transportation projects, including right-of-way efforts and preliminary sidewalk design. “You do have a copy of our report, and I’d be glad to answer any questions,” Lynn said, adding that the department had received 30% design plans for phase one of a sidewalk project along U.S. 62.
Lynn told the committee the department had completed a pump station for Cherokee County Rural Water No. 3 and had recently finished waterline extensions in two Delaware County systems. He listed multiple rural water systems the department is assisting through cooperative work with the Oklahoma Rural Water Association, characterizing the effort as technical, managerial and financial assistance for systems with deficiencies.
After the committee approved the resolution, members agreed the item should be moved to the full council that evening for final action.
The committee did not record a roll-call vote naming individual yes/no votes in the transcript; the chair declared the “ayes” carried and the resolution passed at the committee level. The full council will consider the application authorization as the next formal step.
