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Mahoning commissioners to take bids for resurfacing
YOUNGSTOWN
The Mahoning County Commissioners have voted to advertise for bids for resurfacing nearly 13 miles of county roads at an estimated cost of $1.8 million.
Bids for this project will be opened June 20.
The roads to be resurfaced are:
Glenwood Avenue between Southwoods Boulevard and Ewing Road in Boardman.
Kirk Road from state Route 46 to Turner Road in Austintown.
Hopkins Road between Truesdale and Shields roads in Boardman.
McGuffey Road from state Route 616 to the Pennsylvania line in Coitsville Township.
Grandview Road from Mahoning Avenue to Mahoning-Trumbull County Line Road in Milton Township (excluding Craig Beach, where it was repaved within the last two years).
Raccoon Road between U.S. routes 224 and 62 in Canfield Township.
Dobbins Road from state Route 170 to Struthers Road in Poland Township.
South Range Road from Springfield Township Hall to Beard Road in Springfield Township.
Beard Road from South Range Road to state Route 617 in Springfield Township.
The section of New Buffalo Road west of state Route 46 in Beaver Township.
The resurfacing mileage is about the same as last year’s, but last year’s cost was only about $1.2 million, said Marilyn Kenner, chief deputy county engineer, attributing the increase to rising costs of the oil and stone components of asphalt.
“If you go back five or six years ago, you got 24 miles with about $1.4 million,” recalled County Engineer Richard A. Marsico.
Also Thursday, the commissioners awarded a $337,508 contract to Diorio Paving Inc. of Girard for extensive patching of an additional 6.43 miles of county roads.
Kenner announced that Western Reserve Road between state Route 46 and Covington Cove Road will be closed for 45 days beginning Monday to all but local traffic for the Western Reserve Road widening project.
The section of Western Reserve Road between Raccoon Road and state Route 46 that recently has been closed to non-local traffic will reopen today, she said.
In other action, the commissioners recognized three local schools for collecting 11,214 pounds of telephone directories for recycling in a county recycling-division-sponsored drive.
Damascus Elementary School was in first place with 4,794 pounds. Martin Luther King Elementary School in Youngstown took second place with 4,280 pounds; and Poland Union Elementary School took third place with 2,140 pounds.