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Mayor: Cullman awarded $20.39 million federal grant for Highway 278; ALDOT to administer

Cullman City Council · April 6, 2026
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Mayor Woody Jacobs told council members the city received a $20,390,000 MPDG award for Highway 278, obtained a state pass‑through letter so ALDOT will handle administration, and cautioned the work will be lengthy and disruptive during construction.

Mayor Woody Jacobs told the council on April 6 that the city was awarded a $20,390,000 Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant (MPDG) to support work on Highway 278 and that the city secured a state 'pass‑through' letter to allow the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) to administer the grant.

"And that's a multimodal project discretionary grant that we did not think we would get," Mayor Woody Jacobs said, describing the…

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