Finance Committee - 03/04/2020 Page 7
Mayor Donchess
Now there are two paving contracts so maybe you should address both of them at the same time.
Mr. Hudson
So this is our annual paving program. We let out two contracts one was for roads west of the turnpike and
then we let out a second one a couple weeks later for east of the turnpike. As it turns out, Sunshine Paving
was the low bidder on both contracts. So we are recommending awarding each of those to them. It is about 22
miles of paving in aggregate. Sunshine was here paving for us last year, about a $4 million dollar contract and
did a good job so we are recommending approval of these two contracts.
Mayor Donchess
Discussion/questions?
Alderman Laws
First off, Welcome, good to have you here.
Mr. Hudson
Thank you.
Alderman Laws
| vaguely remember and | am probably completely wrong, at the end of last year | feel like they didn’t, they
weren't able to finish the contracts? Whatever happened with that, did we get refunded or are they going to roll
that into?
Mr. Hudson
So they will start out and they will complete that work in the spring, that was true for Brox as well. It is typically
you know the end of the year ran into some weather and some projects were delayed by utility work. So there’s
a little bit of finishing to do in the spring on those contracts from last year. They will be in these contracts and
they are expected to come in the beginning of April and start working.
Alderman Klee
Thank you. One of the things and | am speaking as much to the public as anything on this. I’ve had calls
because people have seen this list and so on and said, “why not this street? All the streets around us have
been done”. And | have explained that there is a scoring and whether or not utility companies are going on
there. So for instance in my Ward, Bell Street seems to be the unwanted child and it is not being paved while
all the other streets have been done. It still has a low score but correct me if | am wrong. You may just hold
off on that because of possibility of utility or other issues. Are there other reasons why you might skip a street
among, because the public looks and says, “well they are there why don’t they do that one”.
Mr. Hudson
Sure, no that’s understandable. No we do look at pavement conditions so that is kind of a primary metric.
Obviously we try to not just work in one area of the City, we want to show that we are making an effort to
improve pavement all over the City so some of it is geography. But you are absolutely right, we look at other
works that is going on. Private utilities may have work, there are other City projects that are happening. | don’t
knot specifically why Bell Street might be deferred or hasn’t happened yet. But those are things we are
considering all of the time.
