Talkeetna Council asks Borough to schedule maintenance

A letter to the Talkeetna Community Council from resident Roberta Sheldon has prompted action on the issue of painting and walkway striping along Talkeetna’s Main Street.  

Repainting of the streets was scheduled by the Mat Su Borough to occur in 2005 and didn’t happen. In 2007, a small bit of painting was done, but not completed. Painting and maintenance of Main Street is a Borough responsibility since the streets are borough property. The Talkeetna Community Council discussed the issue at their recent monthly meeting. Members of the audience spoke on a plan from several years ago to change the formation of the walkways and parking in downtown. All business owners had weighed in on the changes, but the plan was never completed because the money slated for the project went, instead, to the new bathrooms at the end of Main Street. There were council members that recalled that bed tax grant project and said that since all the money was used for bathrooms, that the re-painting and change in walkways had never happened.

The council voted to send a letter to the Borough requesting to complete painting in the spring of 2010. More discussion on the Main Street improvement project is scheduled for the Community Council meeting next month.