Finance Committee - 03/04/2020 Page 9
Mayor Donchess
And example in Ward 3 is Orange Street. Now Orange Street is in terrible, terrible shape and has been for
several years at least. It was not paved but now, now that we have done a lot of the streets, Orange Street is
now on the list to be reclaimed. I’m sure that is an example of a street that could you know that we held off on
it because we were trying to do other streets and preserve them. Now we get to Orange Street and there’s
quite a few streets being reclaimed this year especially inside the highway. But Orange is really bad and | was
so glad to see it on the list.
Alderman Klee
Mr. Mayor may | add to that?
Mayor Donchess
Yes Alderwoman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you, yes. Orange Street is bad and the irony of it is the residents don’t want it paved because they
asked that when it gets paved if we could leave holes in it to slow people down. That one will be pushed
towards the end of the year because of all the utility work. | guess there’s a lot of sewer work that has to be
done which is going to create a need to completely reclaim it because of all the digging is that correct?
Mr. Hudson
Yes that’s correct. We have a sewer project which is the later contract we will talk about next but we will be
replacing sewer main on Orange Street. So as bad as it is, it will be worse when we get done. So doing a full
reclaim and repaving is appropriate.
Alderman Klee
And if | just, | just have one more? Whitney Street is also on there but because we have Whitney Street as
part of our grant for the TAP Program that’s probably going to be pushed off am | correct?
Ms. Hudson
Yes that’s correct. We, in discussions realized that is a forthcoming project and that would be adding sidewalk
where we would have to cut the pavement along the entire edge of the road. We decided to defer that one
until that other work is done. Make a note in here, there’s things that come up, some of these roads need to
shift, or to defer, or to be done depending on other factors. So there’s always a little bit of change to the list as
we go through the year. But yeah we have decided to defer Whitney.
Alderman Klee
Thank you very much | appreciate that.
Alderwoman Kelly
| think my question is for both of you and potentially for someone from the finance side. But | was just
wondering how much we evaluate the program of the previous year and its successes as we build the new
program and also potentially what that cost looks like.
