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| Work Detail | A month after the Maryville City Council awarded a contract to Keller Construction Co. of St. Joseph, work began this week on the long-anticipated asphalt overlay of North Main from Highway 71 to just south of 242nd Street at the entrance to the Timber View Estates subdivision. Keller has also been contracted by Timber View residents, whose homes are located outside the city limits, to repave streets serving the single-family housing development. The milling down of old pavement in preparation for resurfacing began Wednesday and, possibly because of rainy weather on Thursday morning when crews could not work, caused little, if any, traffic congestion as Northwest Missouri State University freshmen arrived in Maryville for the start of a new fall semester. Keller anticipates that, if the weather cooperates, the mile-long resurfacing project should be completed in less than two weeks. Badly deteriorated in places, North Main north of 16th Street is a highway-like stretch of road that extends about two miles before it crosses 71 and becomes Route C, a short stretch of blacktop that serves as a link to Highway 148. Only the northernmost mile of North Main is being paved this year due to a reduction in the amount of municipal capital improvement funds available for such repairs. Though Maryville’s half-cent capital improvements sales tax brings in about a half-million dollars a year, most of that money is now obligated for debt service related to earlier projects. The levy sunsets in 2018, and city officials are expected to ask voters to renew the tax in next April’s municipal election. But until that happens, funding for smoother streets must largely be taken from the city’s General Fund. The relative scarcity of money in this year’s budget for overlay work means that North Main will be the only such project carried out during the 2016 construction season. Originally the city had also planned also to resurface South Davis, South Saunders, and Galaxie Drive. However, that plan went awry last month when Keller competitor Herzog Contracting, also based in St. Joseph, questioned the city’s bid process. After Keller submitted a slightly lower offer, Herzog complained that the specifications weren’t detailed enough with regard to the amount of milling work and asphalt material required to satisfactorily complete the job. The funding package for the $230,000 North Main project was to have included $84,000 in Surface Transportation Program grant funds through the Missouri Department of Transportation. But MoDOT, in reviewing Herzog’s objections, declared that the city’s bid specifications did not meet its requirements. Therefore, STP funds could no longer be applied to the project unless the city revised its specifications and rebid the project, a process that would possibly have delayed North Main resurfacing until next summer. In order to move the job forward, the City Council dropped plans for resurfacing South Davis, South Saunders, and Galaxie and reallocated the MoDOT grant funds to a planned overhaul of South Main Street between South Avenue and Walmart tentatively scheduled for next year. When plans for repaving North Main were first broached by municipal staff, it was suggested that the southern half of the thoroughfare between Timber View Estates and 16th Street take place sometime during summer 2017. However, capital improvement funds will be limited next year as well, and the proposed General Fund budget for fiscal 2017 unveiled Monday by City Manager Greg McDanel allocates only $300,000 for street overlays. Of that amount, $170,000 is to come from the General Fund and $130,000 from what remains of discretionary capital improvement tax revenues. No specific overlay projects are listed in McDanel’s preliminary spending blueprint, but the city manager said Thursday the southern half of the North Main corridor is still one of the city’s most important street maintenance priorities. However, the south half of the strip is in somewhat better shape than the north half, and McDanel said other streets inside the city proper may need to be addressed first and could set completion of the corridor back at least a year. McDanel said while money for overlays will be included in the new budget, which must be approved by the City Council prior to Oct. 1, specific streets won’t be selected until fairly early next year after Public Works personnel have a chance to assess the impact of winter, when most pavement deterioration occurs. |
| Country | United States , Northern America |
| Industry | Construction |
| Entry Date | 03 Sep 2016 |
| Source | http://www.maryvilledailyforum.com/news/article_50124786-6b90-11e6-81f3-db52ffa70f7b.html |
