NEWARK -- The Shelly Company, low bidder for Newark's street paving project, will begin paving city streets in early June, City Engineer Brian Morehead told City Council on Monday.
The $1.4 million in street paving work will begin earlier in the year than normal, Morehead said, and will finish this year. The list, released last month, included 66 streets, mostly in neighborhoods. A lot of them have not been paved since the early 1990s, he said.
“It’s all driven by having money in the budget on Jan. 1, based on state gas tax collections," Morehead said. "The bidders said the same thing. It’s better for the city financially and not carry over to next year.”
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The city's paving money comes from an estimated $1 million in state gas tax funds, $350,000 from the city's capital improvements fund, and $200,000 from the License Plate Permissive Tax.
The Ohio General Assembly last year approved a gas tax increase to $0.39 per gallon of gasoline and $0.47 per gallon of diesel. The city expected to receive an additional $1.1 million annually from the gas tax increase, which began in July.
The extra funds allow the city to pave 30 to 40 lane miles this year, compared to about 20 lane miles in previous years. The city has a total of 480 to 490 lane miles and 220 center lane miles, Morehead said.
Morehead said he could spent $3.9 million on streets in need of paving, but can afford to pave only a portion of those roads every year. A 2012 study showed the city needed to spend about $2.2 million annually The city would probably need to catch up, he said.
"We haven’t been funding enough in the past to keep up," Morehead said. "We’ve been way behind and will be behind for several years. I can’t depend on capital improvements money every year. I never know what that’s going to be.
"It’s going to take us 4-6 years to catch up on local streets. The gas tax increase is our only saving grace, giving us a chance to catch up."
Mayor Jeff Hall said the city's gas tax funds may be less than expected this year because of the shutdown due to the COVID-19 virus. Gas consumption has been down about 40%, he said, but may be picking up now as businesses begin reopening.
City Councilman Jeremy Blake, who was critical of the amount of neighborhood street paving during his unsuccessful mayoral campaign last year, asked Morehead how the streets are selected for the paving list.
“On local roads, I evaluate streets every year and monitor requests and rank those streets along with all those from the previous year that didn’t get done," Morehead said. "I wait until winter weather is done and finalize the list of streets.”
In addition to the $1.4 million paving contract, the city is spending $25,000 to $30,000 on Blue Jay Road, in cooperation with the city of Heath, and $108,000 on Harris Avenue, also in cooperation with Heath.
Also, the city is about to begin the three-year, $23 million Fourth Street sewer separation project. The work will begin on West National Drive, at the South Fork Licking River, then continue on South Fourth Street, North Fourth Street, West Locust Street and finally on Granville Street, ending at the Ohio 16 overpass in 2022.
In addition to the underground sewer work, the project includes replacing street pavement, curbs and sidewalks, and installing roundabouts at Fourth and West Church streets, and the five points intersection of Granville, Fifth and West Locust streets. Installation of a roundabout at West Main and North Fourth streets will be a separate Ohio Department of Transportation project.
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