Infrastructure Projects
Transfer Station Operations (TSO) Modernization Plan
Records show that the city has historically struggled with high operational costs in providing trash collection services at a rate that would sustain the TSO fiscally and physically, as required by state statute. In March 2024, the city adopted new household collection and transfer station/collection rates to restore the transfer station and trash services to solvency. The city plans to invest in the TSO to address safety, economic sustainability, and efficiency. New equipment with tippers will replace equipment that is past its useful life. This will eliminate the manual handling of trash and reduce workplace injuries and eliminate biohazards such as contact with needles, human waste, and material not supposed to be disposed of in trash receptacles. Learn more about the project here.
After assessing our roadways and sidewalks across the city, this project is a revitalization effort that will encompass milling and paving work on our worst roadways in the city in addition to gutter/culvert and sidewalk improvements as needed. This project will run in two phases, with the initial work on the hilltop beginning in the fall of 2023 and the second portion in downtown in the spring of 2024.
The City of Madison, as a part of our sidewalk management plan and initiative to improve the quality of life for our residents, will be creating new sidewalks along the north and south sides of Clifty Drive from Lanier Drive/HWY 7 to Michigan Road. These sidewalks will meet current code, and be fully ADA compliant, increasing the walkability in our city one step at a time. This project grew from the original STELLAR design concept, and the public meeting in 2019 presentation.
Habitat for Humanity Subdivision
The RDC entered into an EDA on June 6, 2022. The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority stated that Jefferson County is 300 units short in all income levels, this led us into this agreement with the nonprofit to build six homes no smaller than 1,200 SF. The developer will complete three homes on Green Rd with paved driveways, and at the time of completion, the city will mill and pave Beech Grove St and replace and repair existing sidewalks.
An outcome of a comprehensive study conducted in 2020, the Main Street Master Plan has been thoughtfully developed to simultaneously calm traffic, increase the safety of pedestrians, boost the historic character of the street, and replace/repair infrastructure ad drainage issues. When completed, the project is estimated to be near $25 million.