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Stimulus Money Boosts County Road Work

By Scott Sarvay
June 18, 2010 Updated Nov 20, 2009 at 5:26 PM EST ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - A government program aimed at rejuvenating the economy, is helping fix Allen County roads at a greatly accelerated pace. Re-surfacing work on Bass Road between Scott Road and County Line Road will be funded through federal stimulus dollars. Allen County officials say the aid is bankrolling ten times the normal amount of road work here, because bids came in low on the first batch of projects approved. Allen County Commissioner Nelson Peters says, "Fortunately, we had the engineering done on a few others and the federal government came back to us and said, you know, maybe you can use some of this other money that's been allocated locally, and we said we'll take what we can get." The commissioners gave "yes" votes to advance eight other local road projects that are in line to get stimulus funds.
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