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Carbondale CAPE projects led by railroad relocation plan
The Carbondale City Council tentatively approves a 1982-83 capital improvements budget totaling 14 million with the railroad relocation project as the largest item. The plan funds a U.S. 51 overpass, Pleasant Hill Road overpass, public buildings including a new library and downtown parking garage, water and sewer upgrades, and street work, aided by federal revenue sharing of over 626,000. Other actions include hospital trash storage encroachment approval, a second one year extension for Ira Parrish’s 64 acre subdivision plans, and a city sick leave buy back program aimed at reducing abatements from eight days per employee.
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Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Pleasant Hill Road
New
Carbondale Public Library
CIP
Memorial Hospital
Jackson Street