Several Biking Across Kansas (B.A.K.) participants expressed Chanute was their favorite spot on the journey across Kansas earlier this month, Chanute city commissioners heard at their Monday meeting.
City crews have completed a project to install fiber-optic broadband service to half of a square mile of Chanute, the city manager told commissioners Monday evening.
âHats off to the city employees,â City Manager Todd Newman said. âItâs a huge asset to the city of Chanute.â
Newman gave a year-end update on city projects for the commissionâs final meeting of 2020, including the Connectivity Emergency Response Grant (CERG) project to install fiber. The $2 million project, which is 80 percent funded by the Kansas Department of Commerce, was intended to increase broadband access in response to possible isolation to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
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