LOGAN — Back in 2007 local citizens approved a ballot initiative (54 to 45 percent) that allowed Cache County to impose a .25 percent sales and use tax for transportation projects.
On her monthly Speak to the Mayor program this past Wednesday during KVNU’s For the People program, Logan Mayor Holly Daines talked about how some of the projects are progressing through the county Council of Governments (COG), an entity that includes all 19 mayors in the county.
She explained that the cities provide a match on these projects.
“We always try to match a little bit more, we tend to have a bigger budget and can do that. For instance, the project we’ve applied for this year, which is 10th North – 600 West, that intersection, as people noticed, we’ve been working on 10th North going both east and west.
“We’re working from essentially Petsmart to 200 West, putting a new stoplight in there, widening. But then you also get to 600 West with the railroad, and we finally have agreements with the railroads as we’ve talked about multiple times,” the mayor said.
Daines said the projects need to be ranked and voted on by all the mayors. She was asked if she could choose one or two transportation projects to be approved, what would she choose.
“I think the Nibley phase 5 because, again, there’s just that last little piece that needs to be connected, and once that’s done it will be a great corridor.
“And honestly, I don’t always rank Logan’s project #1, I try to be fair and objective. Our project at 6th West and 10th North I’d probably rate #2 just for myself. “
The Nibley phase 5 would connect a road that would extend from Hyrum to the Logan-Cache Airport via 1200 West in Nibley to 1000 West in Logan.