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Infrastructure board unhappy with recent paving
The 2011 transportation sales tax street construction projects are nearly finished and members of the city's infrastructure board, which oversees the projects done with the sales tax, are not pleased with at least some of the final results.
"I'm not very proud of what they left us," Jack Bastow, infrastructure committee chairman, said during a committee meeting Monday night referring to the street paving done by APAC, which got the 2011 paving contract.
"The asphalt looks porous," Bastow said and doesn't appear to him to be sealed well.
"There's a street by my house that is four or five years old that looks better," Bastow said.
"It's more porous than the majority of the streets we have done. It's not just one street," board member John Haggans said.
"This is the same stuff they put down for MoDOT," Nevada City Manager JD Kehrman told the board. APAC also had a contract to supply asphalt for several Missouri Department of Transportation highway projects in the area this summer.
Bastow said that the paving along the south side of the old Franklin School in the 700 block of West Sycamore was really coarse.
Kehrman told the board that the city would ask APAC to send a representative to meet with infrastructure board members to look at the paving at various places in town.
Wednesday evening Kehrman said that Roger Beach, the city's operations department director, took a look at West Sycamore and agreed that it needs to be repaired.
Kehrman said that there is a one-year warranty on the paving and that APAC will have to make any needed repairs.
While the construction projects are finished, the city is planning to slurry seal about 50 blocks of city streets, Beach told the board.
He said they will be able to seal about eight to 10 blocks of streets a day.
With the 2011 projects about to be completed, the infrastructure is now looking at the projects for 2012.
The main project they are looking to tackle will be rebuilding a section of North Cedar street that the infrastructure board has been looking at for several years.
"I'd like to start on Cedar Street and repave it from Hickory to Atlantic streets," Beach said.
He said that the most recent estimate the city had for this project was about $288,000 for the eight blocks.
Beach told the board that he would also like to look at resurfacing four blocks of Ashland Street, west from Ash Street.
He told the board that the projects he's proposing include only 12 blocks and the city did 16 blocks this year and came in under the budget.
"If we get started early we can do a few more streets," Beach said.
Haggans told the board that Joe Sunthimer had asked that they consider a section of North Oak Street, between Vernon and Floral streets, where Habitat for Humanity built a house a couple of years ago.
Haggans said that there is a drainage problem and he was concerned about the elevation.
The board is also considering projects on Prewitt and Chestnut streets which they will discuss during a Sept. 12 meeting.
"I'd like to have the streets set by the time we do the budget, so we can go for bids early in 2012," Beach said.