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The only bid for Indianola's downtown streetscape project came in $2.7 million over budget, potentially bringing progress on the city's facelift for the downtown Square to a halt. City Manager Ryan Waller said the $9,645,509.80 bid, submitted by Absolute Concrete Inc., was the only bid submitted before the deadline. The original engineer's estimate for construction was $6,877,765.10. He said Indianola City Council will hold a public hearing on the bid Monday. Charlie Dissell, the director of Indianola Economic and Community Development, said city staff would also recommend the council d...

The City of Indianola is a part of a program administered by Service Line Warranties of America that is sponsored and supported by the National League of Cities that allows warranty coverage on service lines for properties. City Manager Ryan Waller tells KNIA News the program is an insurance program for residents in the event anything would happen to the city service lines to an owned property. “So if anything were to happen to the service lines, the sanitary sewer lines which convey the sewage from your house, this program would most likely cover that.” Waller said the program is complet...

Indianola Preparing for Square Traffic Conversion

The Indianola City Council approved the first of three readings on amending the city code to convert the traffic on the downtown Indianola square and surrounding streets from one-way to two-way. City Manager Ryan Waller tells KNIA News the conversion was part of the feedback returned by a focus group and other community members, and will be put in place next month. “The target date for making the change is May 17th. So Buxton and Howard will convert to two-way and then around the square. And then along with that we will make several intersections four-way stops and making several four-way s...