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Paving progress
CANFIELD
After walking the township roads on the repaving list, trustees agreed the best way to tackle the project is by neighborhood instead of by individual road.
“I think it’s the best economically and the best for our residents,” said Trustee Marie Cartwright, during the meeting earlier this week.
Township Administrator Keith Rogers said the contractor will give a better price if the repaving stays within a development.
Brian Governor, trustee chairman, said he understands plans for the roads are not perfect, but he wants to keep moving forward with phases of the project.
Cartwright said two roads that absolutely need to be done this year are Steeplechase Run and Gibson Road.
Governor and Rogers agreed at a meeting earlier this month the plan for Gibson was to skim-coat the first 1,500 feet to make it driveable until township officials are able to fix it long-term.
The skim-coat will cost an estimated $15,000 out of the $190,000 appropriated for paving projects this year.
Steeplechase still has to be evaluated, but both Rogers and Cartwright said the road will probably have to be ground down to be fixed.
After those two, trustees discussed adding Aladdin Street, Clearview Drive, Edenrock Avenue and Bay Hill Drive to the list for this year.
“The most-important thing right now is to measure up the roads and find out what’s going to fit in our budget,” Cartwright said.
In other news, Cartwright announced two new firetrucks, costing more than $1 million combined, arrived Tuesday evening.
“One was for the replacement of truck that was destroyed in the turnpike accident [in 2014], and the other is a new truck that was scheduled to be put into commission and will be transferred to station 3 once it’s built,” Cartwright said.
The funding for the trucks comes from a 1.25-mill levy, generating $627,854 annually, voters approved in 2014.