WKTV Staff
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The annual roadwork “construction season” in Kentwood and beyond was one of the many discussion items of a wide-ranging inter-governmental leaders meeting Monday, June 10, at the Wyoming-Kentwood Area Chamber of Commerce’s Government Matters Committee’s monthly forum at Kentwood City Hall.
The monthly forum is free and open to the public, and allows public questions.
“We do have two seasons: snow season and construction season, and we are starting that construction season,” City of Kentwood Mayor Stephen Kepley said at the meeting. “We do have road construction projects in place and I encourage everybody to go to our website, and see when those are (happening) and where those construction projects are taking place.”
Mayor Kepley pointed out major work along Sparks Drive SE and Forest Hill Avenue SE including the intersections of Burton Street SE and East Paris Avenue SE. According to the city’s website listing 2019 roadwork, the project will cost $1.3 million and run June 24 through August. For more information see a WKTV story (from the City of Kentwood) here.
The meeting is rebroadcast on WKTV’s channels and on-demand website (wktvondemand.com). This month’s meeting is available here.
The Government Matters meeting brings together representatives from the cities of Wyoming and Kentwood, Kent County commissioners, local Michigan state senators and representatives, as well as often representatives of Michigan’s U.S. senators and U.S. congressman who represent the Wyoming and Kentwood area.
The next meeting will be July 8 at the Wyoming City Hall, 1155 28th St SW, from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
The intergovernmental discussion hosted by the chamber focuses on issues that effect residents and businesses in the two cities.
For more information about the chamber and Government Matters visit southkent.org .
The meetings are on the second Monday of each month, starting at 8 a.m. WKTV offers replays of the Monday meetings on the following Wednesday and each Wednesday at 7 p.m. on Comcast Cable Government Channel 26. It will also be replayed on the Saturday a week after the meeting at noon, also on Channel 26.
For a highlight schedule of WKTV programing visit here .
