Finance Committee - 10/04/2017 Page 6
started getting exposed more. Before we put the new top coat, we have to patch these exposed areas. We
underestimated previously. That is why we are requesting an additional 4,000 square yards of patch work.
The second request as part of this change order is Beauview. There was a section which starts from Charlotte
Avenue to a dead end which we would like to mill and overlay.
Mayor Donchess
So that’s being added to the list.
Ms. Gill
Yes.
Alderman Siegel
We're taking this money out of the pool that we allocated for doing the street paving. | agree with spending the
money to do this. Does that imply we are going to be able to pave less miles of streets because we're using
this extra money, not that it’s not well spent?
Ms. Gill
On an average we are seeing out of $2 million, we are paving approximately 6-7 miles. Right now we are
working with residential streets. They are old residential streets that have only been paved once in like 30
years. That’s why. This is just 15 streets that we opened. In the future what we will try to do is remove less
asphalt so the patchwork needed is less.
Alderman Siegel
So we will still get the same amount of street work done, it’s just that we need to do more work here and
somehow we will do less work than we estimated on the other streets?
Ms. Gill
Yes.
Mayor Donchess
The plan is to spend $2 million this fall and then to again spend $7.5 million in calendar year 2018. Plus, we
do have the repurpose money from the Broad Street Parkway amounting to $4 million, so we should spend a
total of $11 million plus next calendar year. | think the point here is in order to do these streets properly, like
one of the streets we’re doing here in terms of the patching, is Everett Street which is over here. It’s a little
street off the beginning of Ledge. When they initially assessed these streets, they thought one paving would
be sufficient. They want to get a 3-inch pave. Upon further investigation there are certain parts of these
streets where the paving is not thick enough so when they grind it down there would not be three inches. The
idea is to patch this so there’s a patch in the thin spots so when they put down the two inches it makes a three-
inch service. Is that correct?
Ms. Gill
Yes.
Mayor Donchess
In order to do these streets right this needs to be done.
