City, County partner on grant to repave 4th St.

DAYTON–A $2.2 million grant has been awarded to the City of Dayton and Columbia County to repave South 4th Street from Main Street to the south City Limits, Dayton Mayor Roger Trump announced this week.

The federal block grant funding of $2,218.052 was made possible by a collaborative process and teamwork between the City of Dayton, Columbia County, engineering firm Anderson•Perry and Associates, the Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) and Washington State Department of Transportation Local Programs Division, Trump said.

The construction funding for the project included $1,783,122 in special redistributed federal transportation block grant funds and $434,930 in regular federal transportation block grant funds, all of which are administered by Washington State Department of Transportation Local Programs Division, City Public Works Director Ryan Paulson said in a news release. The design engineering funding came from a Washington State Transportation Improvement Board state grant funds, which made it possible to meet the federal grant funding required funding obligation deadlines. The project had to be shovel ready for construction by September, 2024, to be eligible to receive the special redistributed federal grant funds.

City of Dayton and Columbia County were one of 20 local agencies (city/county) in Washington State to be awarded special redistributed federal grant funds, which were made available because other states, cities and/or counties were unable to program and deliver projects that could be ready for construction and have construction funding obligated by September, 2024, Paulson said.

In 2023, Columbia County Public Works was successful in receiving approximately $1.2 million in federal redistributed funds and approximately another $1.2 million in additional regular STBG funding, of which $438,930 is being used for this project. Columbia County used approximately $ 1,233,828 in 2023 in redistributed funds to fund and construct a 31-mile seal coat/pavement preservation project.