Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza. MWC file photo.
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) — Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza issued a statement Thursday thanking voters for their support of four different transportation projects at the polls this week.
“I’m very happy that the majority of voters understood the importance of these questions,” said Wiza. “We will now be able to bid out and begin preparation for our regular, annual street resurfacing and reconstruction projects for 2023.”
Those include the reconstruction of a portion of Minnesota Avenue and resurfacing in the area of McDill pond. Those projects have been on the city’s to-do list for some time and were scheduled to be completed in 2023 even before the August referendum which requires the city to put all transportation infrastructure projects valued at more than $1 million to a public vote.
Wiza also released a bit more information regarding two of the projects; an extension of Badger Avenue and a rail sidetrack. He says those are tied to a potential development that the city is hoping to announce later this winter. “While we cannot disclose the company, we can share that we are one of two North American locations being considered.”
If Stevens Point lands the deal, an announcement could come in January. Wiza adds that he and city staff are still working diligently with the developer, and if Stevens Point were to lose out those projects would be canceled.
None of Tuesday’s votes will have any positive or negative impact on property taxes for residents. The road work was already in the city’s 2023 budget. Should the other projects be necessary, they will be financed through the tax increment district that they sit in and not through residential tax dollars.
You can read Wiza’s complete statement in the link attached to this story.
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