Avila University Receives PIAC Funding

Avila University has been granted $377,000 from the Public Improvements Advisory Committee (PIAC) for funding of the Avila University Sante Fe Trail recreational path. The funds appropriated by PIAC will go to benefit the trail along the southern portion of campus (between Oak St. and Wornall Road.)

Avila University’s campus sits along the historic Sante Fe Trail. The southwestern corner of campus sits at an intersection of two directional paths that fed into the Sante Fe Trail. Settlers would hope to make it to the “Four o’clock house” by 4:00 p.m., which is located just a few hundred feet from campus.

PIAC received 1,176 requests for this next fiscal year. Avila was chosen after a process of review for this one-cent sales tax project.

Construction of the recreational trail is set to begin after May 1, 2006.

Avila University is a private, co-educational, values-based liberal arts institution founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and is located at 119th and Wornall Rd in southwest suburban Kansas City, MO.