Washington State $3.2 billion construction budget has money for Yelm projects

The Washington Legislature has approved a downsized $3.2 billion construction budget with Yelm listed in two of the bullet points.

The House, on a 61-35 vote Sunday night after removing $777 million from the budget to help try to meet the state’s $35 billion operating budget. The last step is the signature of Gov. Chris Gregoire to finalize the bill.

In this budget are:
$400,000 in temporary public works funding for Yelm’s Longmire community park.
And
$11.05 million for the first phase of the Yelm bypass highway, which could put contracts out to bid later this year.

The $400,000 is to added to $408,800 that the Yelm City Council authorized in July of 2008 to run water to a park in Yelm…
For toilets. (See Yelm.com’s excellent article on this)

Over $800,000 to run water, which Yelm doesn’t have, to toilets at a baseball park to replace the portable toilets that now exist there.

And $11.05 million for the first phases of the SR 510 – Yelm Loop?

Thanks Washington State.