Traffic on Oskaloosa’s A Avenue and Market Street corridors downtown will be changed starting next year.  Monday night (12/6), the Oskaloosa City Council approved plans to convert those roadways to three lane roads—with one lane of traffic in each direction plus a left turn lane.  There’s an example of that already in Oskaloosa on Market Street going north from downtown toward William Penn University. The nearly $1.2 million project will also add a traffic signal at C Avenue and North Market Street.  Work will begin in early April.

Prior to Monday’s regular meeting, the Oskaloosa City Council held a work session to discuss wastewater rates and plans to build a new wastewater treatment plant in 2025.  The Council favored a plan that would pay off outstanding loans from the state revolving fund early, since the City has cash on hand to do that.  Your wastewater bill would be scheduled to go up eight percent in March of 2022, ’23 and ’24….with four percent increases in the following years.  The Oskaloosa City Council did not take action; a first reading on this proposal is scheduled for the Council’s next meeting on December 20.