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Step two of street repair |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
W’field council moves to repair north end of town
By KRISTIN REICHARDT
Assistant Managing Editor
WAYNESFIELD — Waynesfield government officials are not using a recently completed $800,000 street improvement project as an excuse to take a breather.
Waynesfield Village Council members chose Monday to authorize the Celina-based Fanning-Howy civil engineering firm to begin the application process for Issue I, formerly Issue II, state funds to apply toward renovations to the northern end of Westminster Street.
“If we do another project, it seems North Westminster Street would be the next logical step,” Mayor Mike Ridenour said during the council’s monthly meeting.
Craig Mescher, a civil engineer with Fanning-Howey, recommended councilors move forward with investing a few hundred dollars in the application process because the Issue I funding available from the state this year is nearly double the usual amount.
He said with more funds available, the village has a greater chance of receiving assistance for the project that could cost $1 million and include the repaving of the street and installing curbs and sidewalks, as well as storm water, water and sanitary sewer lines.
“It would be a pretty good chance application-wise,” Mescher said. “I don’t know where that surplus (money) rolled over from.”
If the village received funding at the district or small business level, Mescher said he would anticipate bidding the project at the end of 2009, with construction slated to begin in 2010.
The project would mirror the recently completed renovations to South Westminster Street, which general contractor Anderack-Pitzen finished at the end of June.
“We need to look at it,” Finance Committee member John Chiles said. “This is what we were looking at with the income tax and other changes was to move forward to make the town more inviting.”
Applications are due in September or October, and councilors would know by the end of fall if the village received funding, Mescher said.
He said since Westminster Street is one of the village’s three main thoroughfares and is a state route, the Ohio Department of Transportation has a grant program to which the village could apply that would fund the top 3 inches of pavement along the route.
“I think we always need to have a wish list, a plan,” Councilor Ronda Knox said. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 July 2008 )
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