Sashabaw Road construction is ready to move forward in mid-May as originally planned, after a $1 million shortfall was filled.
‘We already found the million bucks,? said Independence Township Supervisor Pat Kittle.
After the shortfall was discovered at the end of March, the township met with Road Commission for Oakland County and Michigan Department of Transportation officials.
Additional funds include a $110,000 increase from the Sashabaw Corridor Improvement Authority (CIA), $390,000 from road commission in-kind services, and other funds from MDOT, Kittle said.
‘RCOC also approached the county ? three years of Tri-Party funds will be applied to the project, further reducing the million dollar surprise deficit,? Kittle said. ‘The beauty of what we are are doing is we are leveraging other people’s money to do the project.?
Secured funding already in place for the project, which is now budgeted at $5 million, includes $1.5 million from McLaren Health Care, $1.6 million in Tri-Party funding, and $672,000 in money generated in CIA tax funding. RCOC will be performing $340,0000 in road construction and road paving in the township.
Information in new funding was to be presented this week to the Township Board of Trustees.
-Andrea Beaudoin