City approves 45 blocks of street improvement
–At Tuesday night’s Paso Robles City Council meeting, the council unanimously approved awarding contracts for hotspot street repairs and slurry seal repairs for a collective 45 blocks of city streets.
In June 2015, council adopted an expenditure plan based on a projected revenue of $1,429,000 from Gas Tax and Transit Funds.
The adopted expenditure plan is as follows:
• Airport road maintenance: $600,000 (Propeller to Tower)
• Hotspot repairs: (various locations) $200,000
• Slurry seal: (of several streets) $629,000
Staff advertised for bids for both projects, and at the bid opening on Oct. 1, bids were received as follows:
Hotspot street repairs:
• Souza Construction: $235,000
• Viborg Sand & Gravel: $306,838.50
• John Madonna Construction: $462,821
Slurry Seal Repairs (base bids):
• Souza Construction: $728,212
• Intermountain Slurry Seal: $798,787.44
There are 9 locations for the hotspot repairs. The following streets are on the project list for maintenance:
- Navajo Court
- Navajo Avenue – South River to north of Cheyenne
- Mohawk Court
- Rainbow Court
- Cheyenne Drive (loop road)
- Pawnee Court
- Shoshone Drive
- Navajo cul-de-sac
- Rose Lane – Navajo to Bolen
- Cherokee Court
- Apache Court
- Crazy Horse Drive – Navajo to Nickerson
- Chumash Court
- Sacagawea Court
- Pocahontas Court
- Red Cloud Road – west of Rose Lane to Nickerson
Staff needs assistance from Pavement Engineering Inc. to provide construction inspection, testing, and monitoring the contractors’ progress (i.e. prepare daily reports, measure actual work done for payment, review material compliance reports, insure contractors meet specifications, etc). Their fee for services for both projects is $95,000.
Staff reviewed the low bids submitted by Souza Construction in the amount of $235,000 for hotspot repairs and in the amount of $728,212.80 for slurry seal repairs, and found both to be responsive and responsible bids.
The total amount approved to be awarded is $1,058,212.80, with a 10-percent contingency of $105,800.20 for a total of $1,164,013.
How about 19th and Vine? We have a drain under the road that's completely compacted with mud, rock and debris from the last rain. Our driveway and front lawn have $9,000 worth of damage from that day and hesitant to fix the problem because if it rains again the same thing will happen….and most likely worse. The city needs to fix that drain!
I can't even have someone come over and get rid of all the spraying/markings {GRAFFITI} that was done for the construction that happened several months ago. It's on the street and on the sidewalks. VIne st , between Caballo and 36th!
So glad to see that our roads are finally getting some repair. I don't see any in my neighborhood that happens to be many, many years older and in much worse condition than those listed, but I will have faith that they are included in one of the other categories. Another hope I have is that contractors that come in after the work is done and tear up the roads to put in new projects are held accountable for puting them back to like new condition. That has been a big problem in the past and, in my opinion are part of the reason many of our streets are so bad.
How about 19th and Vine? We have a drain under the road that's completely compacted with mud, rock and debris from the last rain. Our driveway and front lawn have $9,000 worth of damage from that day and hesitant to fix the problem because if it rains again the same thing will happen….and most likely worse. The city needs to fix that drain!
I can't even have someone come over and get rid of all the spraying/markings {GRAFFITI} that was done for the construction that happened several months ago. It's on the street and on the sidewalks. VIne st , between Caballo and 36th!
So glad to see that our roads are finally getting some repair. I don't see any in my neighborhood that happens to be many, many years older and in much worse condition than those listed, but I will have faith that they are included in one of the other categories. Another hope I have is that contractors that come in after the work is done and tear up the roads to put in new projects are held accountable for puting them back to like new condition. That has been a big problem in the past and, in my opinion are part of the reason many of our streets are so bad.