City to receive $300,000 from state for sidewalks

Electric City is being awarded $300,000 from the state Transportation Improvement Board's Complete Streets Program.

The city will use the money to add curb, gutter and sidewalks along Coulee Boulevard, also known as SR-155, from Western Avenue to Electric Blvd.

The city was nominated for the award by the Department of Health. TIB chose 47 cities and two counties to receive $17 million total in awards.

City Clerk Russ Powers said he thinks the city was nominated because they worked with the Department of Health for three years developing a parks and recreation plan.

He said the next steps are to have the city's engineering consultant firm, Grey & Osborne, engineer the project. After that's done and the project has gone out to bid, construction could start sometime in 2020.

The east side of Coulee Boulevard is likely the side the sidewalks will go on, Powers said.