The City of Caney has been notified that it is one of 13 local units of government in southeast Kansas to receive a portion of the federal stimulus bill — formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — to improve a primary Caney thoroughfare.

The Kansas Department of Transportation on Monday doled out $34.7 million to a total of 77 city and county projects that qualified for the federal stimulus bill for transportation improvements. Caney will receive $177,500 for a project to include an improvement to Fourth Avenue, from McGee Street (U.S. 75 highway) to Wood Street. Fourth Avenue’s existing asphalt cover will be milled down one inch, after which a two-inch overlay of asphalt will be applied.

The City of Caney — which was the only entity in Montgomery County to receive funds from this inaugural round of federal stimulus money for transportation projects — will not be required to match the federal money unless the total project surpasses $177,500.

More details of the project will be printed in the March 26 edition of the Montgomery County Chronicle.