CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

                                    Mayor

RESOLUTION 08-78

 

A Resolution of the City Council of Homer, Alaska, sTRONGLY SUPPORTING THE UPGRADE AND IMPROVEMENT OF MILES 45-60 OF THE STERLING HIGHWAY, MILES 18-26 OF THE SEWARD HIGHWAY, AND MILES 165-169 OF THE STERLING HIGHWAY, and adding passing LANES to the sterling highway.

 

WHEREAS, The Seward Highway was originally built in 1952 and the Mile 18-26 section has not receive any improvements except for some blacktopping since that time; and

 

WHEREAS, The Sterling Highway is the only road linking the western Kenai Peninsula communities (Kenai, Soldotna, and Homer to name a few), to the rest of the state, and the Alaska Department of Transportation has been studying mile 45-60 and mile 165-169 for many years; and

 

WHEREAS, Passing lanes on the Seward Highway have improved the safety of the Seward Highway and similar passing lanes would improve the safety of the Sterling Highway, and

 

WHEREAS, The repair and improvement of these roadways do not appear on the current Statewide Transportation Improvements Program (STIP); and

 

WHEREAS, These sections of the Seward Highway and Sterling Highways have been the scenes of many accidents, some causing serious injuries, and deaths--all devastating to families and friends of residents, as well as visitors to our Peninsula communities; and

 

WHEREAS, These roads are critical to the economic welfare of the residents of the Kenai peninsula; and

 

WHEREAS, it is imperative improvements be made to these roadways to prevent poor road maintenance conditions be a constant threat to our citizen’s safety and lives.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of Homer, Alaska strongly supports the upgrade and improvement of miles 45-60 and 165-169 of the Sterling Highway, and miles 18-26 of the Seward Highway and adding passing lanes to the Sterling Highway.

 

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 28th day of July, 2008.

 

                                                                                    CITY OF HOMER

 

 

                                                                                    _____________________________

                                                                                    JAMES C. HORNADAY, MAYOR

ATTEST:

 

 

______________________________

JO JOHNSON, CMC, CITY CLERK

 

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