More streets added to paving list
By Randy Bell
The City of Clinton has decided that pavement markings can wait. What’s needed now is more pavement.
The City budgeted $1 million for street resurfacing this year, but it cost only $762,277.99 to pave the thirteen streets initially chosen. Mayor Will Purdie says they looked at using the leftover money to put striping down on several streets but decided it would be better to pave three more streets.
“We had considered some street markings that needed to be replaced but [since] this year’s paving contract didn’t include bids for [striping], we don’t have what’s called a unit price bid on those this year,” Purdie says. “We’d have to re-bid it out to do that this year. And we anticipate next year’s [paving] project will include markings, so we decided it would be smarter, easier and quicker to do more paving this year and do the markings next year.”
Consulting City Engineer Bill Owen says the streets added to the paving list are:
▪ Manchester Street from Laurelwood Drive to Beverly Drive
▪ Marachino Drive from Cherry Stone Circle to Cherry Stone Circle
▪ (And, if the budget allows) Pheasant Run from Cascades Circle to the cul-de-sac
Owen says the additional streets were chosen based partly on their condition and partly because their short length should allow them to be resurfaced within the remaining budget.
“There are other streets rated the same, but they’re longer and would take more money to [pave]. So, we’ve looked at these three streets. Assuming that everything is like we anticipate, we can get all three streets done.”
He says the combined length is “a little over half a mile.”
The paving will be done by the same contractor who resurfaced the first thirteen streets.
“We’ve already communicated with Adcamp,” Owen says. “They’ve agreed to do it at their unit prices they had for the original contract.”
Purdie is pleased with the work that’s been done.
“The [streets] I’ve been on personally, [the contractor] seemed to have done a very good job. And they did it in a quick manner, so no complaints.”
It’s not clear when the additional paving will be done.
