City eyes federal dollars for infrastructure projects
The City of Olney is researching new federal funding sources that could jump-start long-delayed infrastructure projects, such as replacing the city’s aging underground water pipes and fixing its pothole-riddled roads, Mayor Rue Rogers said. The new year will bring public officials in rural America opportunities for funding infrastructure projects “unlike anything they have experienced in the past,” thanks to billions in federal dollars set aside for small towns and counties, according to Austin-based government procurement specialist Mary Scott Nabers. In her Dec. 30 SPI Insights newsletter, Ms. Nabers described “billions in funding for all types of infrastructure projects in 2023” through federal grant and loan programs for improving rural utilities, transportation and roadways, and broadband connectivity.
