COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council approved a bid of just under $225,000 from Lakeland Asphalt of Battle Creek on Tuesday night for repaving work that city officials felt was not completed properly during last year’s local street milling and overlay project.
City Manager Keith Baker said Lakeland was one of five companies to submit bids.
The work will cover Sauk River Drive from Michigan to Sprague, South Sprague from U.S. 12 to Pearl and Chestnut Run from Bishop Avenue to Northshore Drive.
Baker says the project is budgeted in the current 2023-24 fiscal year with funds allocated from the City’s Act 51 Major Street Fund. Engineers estimated the work would cost about $250,000.
Approximately $160,000 was withheld from a last year’s contract with Thompson Construction that will be applied to the cost of this year’s project.
Frustrations with street construction delays last summer reached the boiling point for some residents. Baker acknowledged the slow progress on some of the projects during a late August City Council meeting.
It was a difficult summer for those who lived near Heritage Park. Streets near the park were milled but left unpaved for several weeks. Western Avenue north of Hatch, where Legg Middle School and Lakeland Elementary are located, was not paved until just before the start of school.
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