The Indianola City Council approved the final administrative steps to wrap up the South K Street Paving Project at their meeting Thursday. The project, which began in August and was announced as substantially completed in November, involved multiple redesigns and a review of the assessments for local homeowners and City Manager Ben Reeves tells KNIA News the project overall changed significantly from the initial planning stages, but that is the outcome of a great public discourse.

“This has been a great project for the city when it comes to listening to the public and trying to move forward in such a way that we are addressing the public’s needs. So the city has already gone through a process that scales the project back to a rural collector standard which is going to save a lot of money but it required that we redesign the project over the winter months. We went through a new assessment process, which of course lowered the assessments on the property owners affected.”

Hear the full interview below.

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