Special Board of Aldermen 10-14-2021 Page 9
Alderwoman Lu
Okay. And can | just ask a couple questions? Could a resident learn their road score?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Sure if they want to call us, we'll share what we have for information. Sure.
Alderwoman Lu
Okay. And another. What are the moratorium rules? | know that there are some. I've heard the term. Could you
explain that just so | have a better understanding?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Sure. I'd be happy to. So the city ordinance stipulate that if a road has been paved, then it goes into a five-year
moratorium against cutting into the street, you know, activities such as installing, you know, utility, that type of thing. A
driving work that might impact the roadway. So there's a five-year period where we're not allowed to cut into the street
unless you get a waiver from that which you need to get from the Board of Public Works. So people can apply if they
have a hardship condition and that will be considered by the Board of Public Works.
Alderwoman Lu
Okay. Could | just ask a couple of other smaller questions? So | never - that was new to me and | haven't been sending
out the schedule of paving to my Ward. Is that moratorium issue mentioned in the notice that goes out about the paving?
It is?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Yeah, absolutely. That's one of the main purposes of sending it out. We want to give people a fair warning. It's not
years in advance warning but as much as we can give them that this is a pending thing. So if there's anything that they
need to do - say they have a really old sewer service that they think is going to need to be replaced, then the time to do it
would be before we come and do the paving.
Alderwoman Lu
Okay. | just have two other quick questions. When the State roads are done, is that the city that's actually, you know, is
it our contracted people? Is it the same quality and same process - like the overpasses or is that a totally different, you
know, oversight that's doing that work?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Its different folks doing the work so the State does their own. | mean, they hire contractors but they do their own
oversight. We follow the same specifications so it's the same. The pavement mixes that we specify are the State
specifications so very similar.
Alderwoman Lu
Great, thank you. I’m all set.
Alderman Jette
So after we complete this 10-year program, will all those streets in the city have been repaved?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
We probably will have visited everyone and done either a maintenance treatment or paving but no, we won't have milled
and paved every street.
