Seldon Bogard Groundbreaking

This is a product of the 2011 road bond package. This was one of the projects in it. The construction budget comes to about $8.3 million and includes a roundabout which will be at this intersection where we're standing today, as well as some work down Seldon Road. Hopefully you won't have so many responses here in the future. It's been a scene of many, many accidents.

This is like the number one concern of the constituents in this area, and when I was elected in 2009, that was the mandate: get this thing fixed. We're really excited about this road improvement project that's going on. One of our main concerns as parents and board members of Twinley Bridge is we're very concerned about the safety of our students. Several of us board members met with part of the design committee a couple months ago and had a little bit of input into some of our concerns. So we're really looking forward to making this whole area better.

In my tenure being on the school board and doing a number of other things, but specifically being part of your legislative delegation, the working relationship between our borough And our state has never been nearly as good as it is today, and that's because there's competent people that know what they're doing, have a bit of a vision, and that some of us can help make those things happen.

This is another exciting day. We're running out of days. Yesterday we had a groundbreaking. Today we have another one. Good things are happening in the borough.

$21 Million project, another important infrastructure that provides transportation, safety transportation to our community. And this is an important connection between the rivalry, between the Moose and the Knights. And so this is going to be, I think, Rivalry Road. I don't think that's going to be the name. I want to just give a real shout out to the borough on this most complex road project that they've done, on the speed at which it's taken place.

We are the fastest growing area in the state, as you know, and one of the fastest growing areas in the entire country. And infrastructure is absolutely an appropriate and important role of the state to get involved with. It's going to become— what we're going to see is it will become a major alternate corridor for the east-west traffic, and we hope that it will— we know it will alleviate a lot of the traffic on the Palmer-Wassilla Highway that we all know has become one of the most dangerous roads in the state of Alaska. No rest for our delegation, no rest for the borough, and that's the way it should be. And it's a pleasure to be able to work on these things that are are really significant.

Thank everybody from the cities to the borough. [FOREIGN].