City Council - Special Meeting

This special meeting notice for the notice hereby given for the special meeting of George Township County will be held for the purpose of public hearing pursuant to KRS 174-100 to obtain written and oral comments regarding the use of municipal road aid funds. So I'm calling this meeting to order and at this time we will public hearing on the road aid fund. So we'll leave the list out. This is going to be for the purpose of, for street payments. And Mr. Hightower has the list of those streets that will be paid for this project. So if you will use an aid fund.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and Council. So I'm going to read down the list of the roads we're going to resurface. sorry there we go hutchins drive berkshire lane brookside drive beveled glass lane fox run road lankford drive pocahontas trail prospect street reading road richfields avenue river run court timberwood trace Wooden spoke lane, South Lafayette drive, North Lafayette drive and Springdale Avenue. Okay.

Those are the streets. Uh, is there anyone in here from the public that has any comments or concerns? Madam clerk, have you received any written confirmation or, or from anybody from the public regarding the municipal aid funds? No. So that being said, there's no other people. Uh, we bought business to be bought for this council on this issue. Yes.

So I have a question. Um, so first of all, can you send the list please? Yes. Uh, and then two, uh, since we're going through the process now of identifying standards and things like that for roads needing to be paved, what were the criteria used to select these streets?

Yes. So the criteria we use are we use the pavement analysis that we did, even though it's old, it's about 10 years old, we still use it. That's going to get redone this year. We're going to have it resurveyed. Then we do a drive by visual inspection and look at the condition just with our eyes. Uh, we get a team together, uh, myself, Robert Bruin, uh, Shay in the office. And we go with the contractor who was Hamilton Hinkle construction, and we all look at them together. And then we look for roads that are, uh, there's a lot of traffic on them. We try to hit the ones that are, that, you know, get to receive the most vehicle traffic. And then ultimately we have to narrow it down because we always have more roads than we have available dollars. And so we just have to make some decisions on how to narrow that down. We try to spend the money down that we have. It's taxpayer money. And we try to get as many roads surfaced as we can with the dollars we have to work with.

So how many miles?

Well, it's... Let's see here... I don't have it broken down in miles. I have it broken done in square yards, uh, for pavement. It's 50,000, 51,000 square yards of 1,000 square yards, square yards. Um, and then 5,045 tons of blacktop 5,045 tons of millings. And one of the things that we run into on city streets is there's curb and gutter. So we always have to mill down that inch that we're gonna put back and that basically doubles the cost of the project, that milling operation. Whereas in county roads and roads that don't have curb and gutter, a lot of times they can get away with just overlaying and they can get more miles in that way. So that's a struggle that we always are faced with every year. We just do use our best engineering judgment. and try to spend the money for the public the best we possibly can.

So what about a communication plan? Sorry, last question. What about a communication plan to residents for implementing?

Oh, you mean as far as when we're going to do the work? Yeah, yeah. What we'll do is when Hampton Hinkle tells us they're ready to start work, they're going to do that this season. This season will end probably November-ish, Thanksgiving. They have to shut down for weather. It's too cold to lay blacktop after so many. And then once we have our roads, they notify on door-to-door door tags. They tell people, like, don't park on the street. You know, we're going to be paving. and that's how we get the word out. Thank you.

You maybe said this, and I just didn't hear it. How many years do you try to get to all of the roads? Is it 10 or 12?

We estimate, if you get a good blacktop job, a 20-year life cycle of it lasting, a good paving job. That's a good average that we like to use. And then we... we don't have enough dollars to pay that rate.

Yeah.

If you, if you just do the, do the math and look at the total road miles we have, and then consider a 20 year life cycle, um, we we're running about, we're running a deficit right now.

Yeah. Okay. Thanks.

Yeah. You're welcome. All right.

Is there any other questions? All right. There's no public comment on this or you're not getting any written comment from the public. So therefore, if no other business to be bought before this, I'm going to declare this, I should call municipal road aid meeting adjourned.