The State College Borough is awaiting the approval of $1 million from the state legislature that is needed to cover costs for the realignment of Fraser Street and Beaver Avenue.

If the state does not grant the borough the money needed to complete the project, the council will have to come up with other plans to pay for the realignment, which was to be funded completely from the state allocation.

The borough is currently in the process of planning to realign the street to make it safer, both for vehicles and pedestrians, borough council members said.

The borough will find out if they will receive the funds in late February, Public Works Director Mark Whitfield said.

"We are hopeful the earmark will still come through," he said.

Any community can get a project approved by the state, but then the list of approved projects compete for state funding, council member Elizabeth Goreham said.

"We are looking at alternate funding sources within the borough presently," Whitfield said. "We are trying to figure out what projects may be delayed or transferred so that we can fund the realignment."

Goreham said that the borough will have to look into alternative funding sources but added that she doesn't want to delay any important projects that residents might need in the upcoming future.

Council members didn't identify which other projects might be put on hold.

The realignment could potentially begin after the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts this summer, with completion dates projected for the month of October, planning director Carl Hess said.

The borough would like to realign the road in conjunction with the addition of the Fraser Street Complex, so all the construction will take place at once, Goreham said.

The Fraser Street Complex is a $30 million addition to Fraser Street that will include a 10-screen movie theater and a residential building for families and professionals.

Hess said the street will be realigned; it's just a question of where the funds are going to come from.

"We have made a commitment -- we have to move the project forward, and we should find out about how we are going to do this within the next month," Hess said.

The $1 million sum would come from the state capital budget if the Fraser Street project is chosen from the entire list of applicants, Goreham said.

"Favorite projects can rise to the top or disappear altogether," she said. "We have a lot of support and we have been waiting a long time -- we are still expecting [the funds], because it's a great project," Goreham said.