Shelby looks ahead to street and other upgrades
SHELBY — With Shelby’s 2021 street paving program completed city leaders are looking toward further upgrades to other roadways in 2022.
John Ensman, Shelby’s municipal utilities director/ deputy public service director, provided an update to City Council’s Utilities and Streets Committee at its Nov. 10 monthly meeting.
In remarks and in a written presentation, he reported that officials are organizing the street paving list for the 2022 planning year.
The city is planning to present the paving project to City Council in the first quarter of 2022 and looking to bid the project early with the hope of receiving better bids through the early start, the presentation showed.
The estimated project cost is about $450,000.
Shelby Mayor Steve Schag encouraged the quick planning.
“I think the earlier the better,” he said to the committee, adding that he recalled hearing news of road program delays until spring/ summer 2022 in another community due to current cold temperatures.
In Shelby, Washington Street resurfacing is a top priority.
The city has “researched a process to resurface the top 2 inches of concrete with a blend of different materials to allow for asphalt topcoat,” said Ensman, who detailed the various steps that would be involved.
“Hopefully, we would do this in May, maybe June timeframe,” he said.
The estimated cost is around $50,000.
“There will be different contractors involved,” Ensman said. “We are going to incorporate all of these into one piece
start to of legislation to look at.”
Washington is one of two concrete streets in Shelby. The other is Lamplighter in the vicinity of State Route 39.
For the 2021 street paving program, a change-order of about $31,301 was presented mainly involving some roadway base issues.
The committee received updates on other projects, too. Highlights from Ensman included:
* Planning for the lead service line project is continuing to move forward. In all, 41 lead service lines are in the Main Street project area from around the South Gamble Street intersection to Mansfield Avenue intersection.
For project funding, Shelby is in the final stages before receiving the principal forgiveness loan, a grant-type funding source that does not need to be repaid. The amount is $288,600.
“The week of Nov. 22nd, we are expected to hear back from the Ohio EPA on the loan award,” Ensman said.
* A Phase 2 program would involve identifying the exact location of other lead service lines throughout the community.
“Ohio EPA has funding available for lead service line replacements, but it requires knowing exactly where the lead lines are located,” Ensman said.
“The Service Department has a lead service line map, but it’s more generalized to specific areas, not specific locations,” Ensman also said.