Jefferson Street residents, your patience has paid off.
During Tuesday night's Fulton City Council meeting, council members voted to approve a project to apply fresh asphalt along Jefferson Street and in the Kleewood subdivision. Both are currently in rough shape due to previous city projects.
"I feel if we don't do Kleewood, don't do Jefferson Street, someone might drag me through the streets," Kyle Bruemmer, Fulton's interim city engineer, said.
"I think the folks on Jefferson have been very patient, that's been torn up for a long time," Fulton City Administrator Bill Johnson added.
Fulton currently has $650,000 set aside for chip-sealing and asphalt projects. Bruemmer estimated a cost of about $250,000 to re-asphalt the roads. He said despite plunging oil prices, the cost of asphalt has remained relatively steady since last year at around $80 per ton.
Council members also discussed a chip-sealing project, which would dedicate $200,000 toward improving several streets around Fulton. Some were due to be chip-sealed last year, but the contractor never even made it to Mid-Missouri, Johnson said. Missouri Petroleum Products, of St. Louis, made the low bid on the project.
That leaves around $200,000 in the road improvement budget.
"Given condition of city streets and COVID-19's (impact on the city's revenue), we probably want to reserve some of that," Johnson said.
City Council members voted unanimously to approve the two projects; Ward 4's Steve Moore was absent.
Street fair
The Fulton Street Fair committee still plans and hopes to hold its annual event on June 26-27, and they now have the city's authorization. Council members voted unanimously to allow the event to take place in downtown Fulton as usual.
According to the request submitted by the Fulton Street Fair Committee, the event will feature a beer garden, carnival games and rides, vendors along Court Street, a balloon glow, a 5K race and more. The planned fireworks display has been canceled, however.
"We've done the street fair for many years and our department heads are all interested in producing a wonderful event for the community," Johnson said. "Fulton is lucky to have people who donate their time and efforts to allow the community to have a few days of fun."
The main potential hiccup, of course, is the ongoing pandemic. It's impossible to say whether social distancing guidelines will still be in place in late June, Johnson acknowledged. The city will follow the county and state's lead about whether to allow the event to proceed as the date draws near.
"If the governor orders that, these dates in June, we're still supposed to be social distancing at that point, we'd be evaluating is getting several thousand people together in downtown Fulton in compliance with that order," Johnson said.
As Ward 2 council member Jeff Stone pointed out, outdoor social distancing guidelines may differ from indoor guidelines.
Assorted business
City Council members voted to approve the appointment of Linda Rootes to the Fulton Housing Authority Commission. Ward 1's Valerie Sebacher, who is employed by the FHA, abstained from the vote.
"I talked to Linda Rootes. She's a good candidate," Fulton Mayor Lowe Cannell said.
City Council members voted to pass Resolution 3372, authorizing the construction of six new hangars at Elton Hensley Memorial Airport.
Including 2020, Fulton has accumulated about $599,513 in uncommitted federal grant funds, Bruemmer said. To use those funds, the city must provide a 10 percent match ($66,613). The city plans to use those funds to build new hangars at Elton Hensley Memorial Airport.
Fulton requested bids for building four, five or six new hangars at the airport. Verslues Construction Company, of Jefferson City, submitted a low bid of $688,524 for the six-hangar option — about $22,000 more than the combined grant and matching funds total. Bruemmer is hopeful MoDOT will cover the difference using unclaimed grant funds from other airports. If not, the city can apply the $30,000 grant it received through the CARES Act Airports Grants Program, which requires no match.
He said hangar rentals are a big source of revenue for the airport; a single year of rent from the six hangars will cover the city's upfront cost.
"Right now, T-hangars rent at 15 cents per square foot," he said. "We could look at bumping these hangars up a few cents because they are brand-new."
Because the project involves federal and state funding, and thus "a lot of red tape," it could be a couple of months before construction begins, he added.
City Council members also discussed returning Fulton City Hall to normal operations. All city staff are expected to return to work on Monday, though the Fulton Police and Fulton Fire departments may remain on modified schedules.
"That could be at 10 percent capacity, it could be by appointment, but I think we need to unlock the doors," he said.
Johnson said sneeze screens have been assembled and installed at the windows around the building. He suggested aiming to reopen to the public May 11.
Spring cleanup — when Fulton waste disposal customers can place bulky items at the curb for pickup — was delayed by the pandemic and has now been canceled altogether; residents will have to wait until the fall cleanup. Curbside recycling is still suspended.
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