SENATOR ROGER BEDFORD
CAPITOL REPORT
Friday, February 25, 2011
It was my pleasure to be able to deliver several grants in the senate
district today. In Russellville grants were presented to Russellville Middle
School for the media center, Russellville High School for the volleyball
team and Robotics. Grants were also presented to Phil Campbell High School,
Tharptown Elementary, Franklin County Junior High, East Franklin Junior High
and Northwest Shoals Community College.
It is a pleasure for me to be able to announce that on February 25, the
Alabama Department of Transportation will take bids for 4 highway projects
in our legislative district. It is important that we do all that we can to
improve the quality of our highways. Especially after the ice and snow
caused freezing of the highways. In Colbert County, the lighting of the
intersection of County Road 312, commonly called Haley Drive and County Road
35, commonly called Garner Lane in the Barton Riverfront Industrial Park.
This lighting will greatly improve the safety, as well as the looks of this
area. There are 3 projects in Marion County with the first being the
resurfacing from State Road 142 from State Road 118 U.S. 278 to State Road
171. This is Phase 1 of the resurfacing program set for FY211. The second
project in Marion County is the resurfacing of County Road 35 to State Road
17. The third resurfacing project in Marion County is the resurfacing of
State Road 253 from State Road 74, U.S. 278, to County Road 49. This is
Phase 1 of the FY211 project. I have been over all these roads and I know
that they need the resurfacing and lighting projects. I know that this will
help improve the overall safety of travel in these areas. You may rest
assured that I will continue to fight to see that we get our fair share of
highway dollars returned to our senate district. We are making our roads
safer, it also improves tourism and the ability of our district’s industries
to get their goods to market.
This past week I received an update from the Senior Rx program. You will
recall that this is a free drug program which I originally created and was
known as TEMP, The Elderly Medication Program in our Senate District as a
pilot project. Since the program’s inception in Region 1(2001), I am pleased
to report the following numbers for this program: Clients served in Region
I, 4,487. Savings to Clients in Region I, $21,819,706.00. Statewide clients
served, 42,729. Savings to Clients statewide, $206,433,783.29. FY2010 Region
I: Savings to clients=$2.4 million, SeniorX Funding Statewide= $2.5 million.
Please continue to contact me about your views and concerns at the
following:
Alabama State House
11 S. Union Street, Suite 738
Montgomery, AL 36130
Phone: 334-242-7862, Fax: 334-242-4736
Russellville Office
PO Box 370
Russellville, AL 35653
Phone: 256-332-6966, Fax: 256-332-6967
Email: senbedford@aol.com
Website:
www.senatorrogerhbedford.com
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