Civil Municipal - Feb 2024

Other downtown enhancements were made about ten years ago with funding from the federal Safe Routes to School program, which allowed the city to upgrade pedestrian amenities between the library and the elementary school. In 2019, residents dedicated the St. Charles Veterans Memorial, right off Main St., which was paid for entirely with public donations. The rest of the city had major street upgrades in 2021. “It touched every street in town,” Langholz reports. “It’s a large bond for the city, but it included adding sidewalk, mill and overlay, crack sealing, complete reconstruction – everything that you can think of in redoing the streets.” Another infrastructure project, Phase One of the 84 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 02