North Street paving tops Wednesday’s Council agenda

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Dur­ing last Wednesday’s Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing, coun­cil mem­ber Len Weath­erby said he and coun­cil mem­ber Tom Zalewski drove around the vil­lage exam­in­ing streets to put together a poten­tial 2013 paving list.

That list needs to be com­plete and approved by coun­cil mem­bers dur­ing Sep­tem­ber because Vil­lage Con­sult­ing Engi­neer Wes Hall, CT Con­sul­tants, must file the village’s 2013 Ohio Pub­lic Works Com­mis­sion Grant Request by Octo­ber 5.

Sun­bury mayor Tommy Hat­field said 2013 might be a good year to finally repair North Street’s brick paving.

“We could do up North Street from Colum­bus Street to Otis Street as one stand­alone project,” Hat­field said. “The other streets on the list just do a mill and fill.”

Hall reminded coun­cil mem­bers that for­mer vil­lage engi­neer Bill Newton’s esti­mate for a com­plete North Street repair using exist­ing paver bricks with a full sub-surface util­ity recon­struc­tion was in the $400,000 to $500,000 range.

“If the street is going to be torn up you should check all of the old sewer and water lines run­ning under the streets,” Hall said.

Hat­field said his only con­cern with putting the entire 2013 paving bud­get into North Street is if other streets need­ing atten­tion could last another year or two.

“North Street would be a great project to pick and do it all,” Hat­field said. “I hate to see the bricks go. I don’t want to wait until we have a com­plete road failure.”

Weath­erby sug­gested paving North Street with tra­di­tional asphalt and, like John­stown, leave brick pavers show­ing at the crosswalks.

Other vil­lage streets that were deemed pos­si­ble for repairs are Rain­bow, McGill, Crowl, Sedg­wick and Burrer.

“The next Ser­vices Com­mit­tee meet­ing is Sep­tem­ber 5,” Hall said. “We have to final­ize our thoughts if we’re going to meet the OPWC grant request deadline.”

Hall also said that the village’s $24,000 Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Block Grant to install 12 curb ramps on the north side of the vil­lage goes out to bid on Sep­tem­ber 11.

“It’s a county project so the county will adver­tise for bids,” Hall said. “And it’s a pre­vail­ing wage job.”

Hall also noted that he is review­ing AutoZone’s revised site plans; and McDonald’s request to install an addi­tional drive-through lane will get an admin­is­tra­tive approval with­out going through zoning.

In other busi­ness, coun­cil mem­bers approved Ordi­nance 2012-01, a sixth amend­ment of the 2012 annual appro­pri­a­tions, to appro­pri­ate money for the Sewer Fund and to autho­rize the pur­chase of a pump for the Sun­bury Mills Lift Sta­tion; and also to place addi­tional money in the Police Fund, depleted by cruiser repair costs.

Coun­cil mem­bers then approved a motion to pur­chase the $14,989 lift sta­tion pump, not to exceed $15,000.

It was noted that dur­ing the month of July Sun­bury Police Depart­ment offi­cers issued 52 traf­fic cita­tions, and went on 295 ser­vice calls with 47 offenses issued.

Coun­cil mem­bers approved a $13,375 pur­chase order to Reinhart-Walters-Danner, a sec­ond install­ment of the village’s casu­alty and lia­bil­ity insur­ance premium.

August is a five-Wednesday month. Typ­i­cally, coun­cil mem­bers hold a third monthly meet­ing if there is a fifth Wednes­day, but can­celled the Wednes­day, August 29 meeting.

The next Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing will be held on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 5.

Sunbury’s web­site is located at < sunburyvillage.com >.

Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meets the first and third Wednes­day of every month at 7:30 p.m., third floor coun­cil cham­bers, Sun­bury Town Hall. Coun­cil com­mit­tees meet one hour before reg­u­larly sched­uled coun­cil ses­sions. All vil­lage coun­cil and coun­cil com­mit­tee meet­ings are open to the public.

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