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Harry Rediger

Mayor's Corner: Harry Rediger

Cape Girardeau Mayor Harry Rediger is one of three local mayors writing weekly columns for the Southeast Missourian.

Transportation Trust Fund update

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Our council was provided a semiannual summary of the Transportation Trust Funds (TTF-1 through TTF-4) at our regular meeting Feb. 21. The official ribbon cutting will be during March on two recently completed projects, which are Big Bend Road and the next phase of Bloomfield Road. These events afford me the opportunity to update our residents on the investment we have made on our streets in the past 17 years. We, as residents of Cape Girardeau, have voted four times over the years for the half-cent sales tax to be restricted to street improvements.

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