City Applying For Grant To Help Get Kids To School Safer

City Planner Ralph Borkowski

The City of Huron has applied for a grant to make transporting children to school safer. City Planner Ralph Borkowski explained the plans laid out in the Safe Routes to School grant application…

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The grant is a 100-percent grant of federal money funneled to municipalities through the State Department of Transportation…

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A number of signs are also a part of the project

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Borkowski says there is no guaruntee the projects will happen…

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The City of Huron will provide approximately 12-thousand dollars in engineering of the project The cost of the project is around 158-thousand dollars.