Council discusses city streets, sidewalks

RITZVILLE – The City Council and Adams County Engineer and Scott Yaeger discussed plans for city streets and sidewalks during an Aug. 2 meeting.

Yaeger is also a city councilman.

Anticipated projects include grinding and inlaying hot mix asphalt from Division to Palouse streets along First Avenue, applying crack seal and slurry seal to various streets throughout the city, and replacing sidewalks on East Sixth Avenue from Division to Chelan streets, Yaeger said.

If grant applications are approved, 92% to 95% of the funding will come from the state Transportation Improvement Board, he said. The...