Business View Civil Municipal - Sept 2023

48 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 Infrastructural improvements Mallon also discusses the county’s infrastructure, which includes some $45 million in planned upgrades and improvements, also thanks to the SPLOST. Mallon adds this will address needed work on roads and bridges and stormwater improvements. “We have a lot of neighborhoods that are getting close to 40 years old,” he informs, “and the storm pipe infrastructure is failing, so we, through the SPLOST, established a funding source to replace those pipes as needed. “Regarding transportation money, we have several goals,” he continues. “We are putting aside a portion of it to expand the infrastructure we talked about in the unincorporated (portions of the) county, and we have some capacity projects, but the biggest emphasis is safety. We are targeting the intersections and areas of our roads that have the greatest safety concerns.” “One of the common things we are doing is installing roundabouts, or, where not feasible,