Town in talks with road contractor over delays, new stripes coming to intersection
Payment for roadwork could be delayed
Borough officials are making a list and checking it twice, but it has nothing to do with any holiday gifts.
Manager of Code Enforcement and Community Development Chris Kunkel Chris Kunkel gave an update Dec. 5 on several of the town’s ongoing road projects, including one where it appears the contractor will not end up on the ‘nice” list.
“We have five contracts currently either complete, mostly complete, or underway,” Kunkel said.
“The mill and overlay contract which included Montgomery Avenue, Courtland (Street), Hancock (Street) and Cannon Avenue, is running late. There was an extension of time granted, and all indications are that Hancock is not going to get paved this year,” he said.
Council and staff have al-
ready granted a time extension to contractor Gore-Con to continue the milling and paving work in December, but the company is still behind the second schedule, Kunkel told council’s administration and finance committee.
“Let me say this: the schedule wasn’t kept. They asked for a new schedule, and that schedule wasn’t followed either,” he said.
Councilman Leon Angelichio said, if the company is unable to successfully mill and finish paving of any road like Hancock this year, to wait until winter weather is finished in spring 2019.
“I’d rather they not even start on it. Don’t mess with it, leave it alone, don’t give us a problem for the winter time,” he said.
“Just pick it up next year. And I don’t want the job rushed either, so we don’t have an inferior product just for the sake of getting it done,” Angelichio said.
Kunkel replied that the borough and the contractor are in “ongoing discussions relative to that, but there’s no intention to do
any more work (on Hancock) this year.”
Council currently has a payment request from the contractor for work on the
paving contracts up for consideration, and Kunkel said staff and the company will likely have “some back and
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