Four towns will receive state T.I.B. street funds

The Town of Oakesdale will undertake surveying and engineering in 2019 for road reconstruction projects to be paid for by a grant from the state Transportation Improvement Board.

The annual grants were announced in November.

The $329,497 grant for Oakesdale will pay for resurfacing of the asphalt between the old fire station and the new one across First Street. Also, a stretch of Steptoe Avenue will be re-built near the county shop on the west side of town.

The T.I.B. this year funded 135 street and sidewalk improvement grants to local agencies for a total of $102.54 million.

“You keep on the list and eventually you get lucky once in awhile,” said Oakesdale Mayor Dennis Palmer.

Tekoa also received $639,812 in T.I.B. funding for resurfacing from Crosby Street to Park Street and Main Street to Howard Street. The work is expected to be done next summer.

LaCrosse received $166,237 for seal coating streets at several locations, and St. John received $146,110 surfacing Park, and Nob Hill Streets, Front, and Bartholow Steets.

Washington state legislature created the T.I.B. in 1988 for the purpose of administering six programs; Urban Arterial, Arterial Preservation, Small City Preservation, Sidewalk, Small City Arterial and Road Transfer programs.