The Hamilton County Commission on Wednesday signed off on $1 million in stimulus-funded paving projects, spending most of the $1.35 million it received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The county also awarded a $202,430 contract to build a football field at East Hamilton Middle-High School, with most of the money coming from Commissioner Larry Henry’s discretionary money.
Commissioner John Allen Brooks explained that each of the seven paving projects approved needed to be looked over by an engineering firm to make sure it’s in line with the stimulus act.
The federal stimulus will cover paving of nine roads all told.
“I can’t see us not accepting (the money),” Mr. Brooks said.