Explanation
The Public Utilities Department, Sewerage and Drainage Division, will perform storm sewer work in the Cassady Avenue area in 2004. The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is also planning a resurfacing project in this area. In an effort to provide a consistent and seamless paved surface, save the City time and money, and avoid placing an unnecessary burden on area residents due to two divisions and possibly two different contractors being involved, it is in the City's best interest to combine the storm sewer and resurfacing work into a single project administered by the Sewerage and Drainage Division.
This legislation appropriates $202,000.00 in Transportation Division funding for the Sewerage and Drainage Division to expend for resurfacing and pavement renovation work in the Cassady Avenue are. The $202,000.00 is the approximate cost for a contractor to mobilize and complete the resurfacing and related pavement renovation work on the following streets: Avalon Place (Cassady Avenue - Columbia Avenue), Columbia Avenue (Margaret Street - Avalon Place), Dawson Avenue (Fifth Avenue - Avalon Place), Dawson Avenue (Fifth Avenue - Sixth Avenue), Drexel Avenue (Fifth Avenue - Seventh Avenue), Drexel Avenue (Margaret Street - Avalon Place), Margaret Street (Cassady Avenue - western terminus), Northview Avenue (Fifth Avenue - Avalon Place), Northview Avenue (Fifth Avenue - Seventh Avenue), Parkview Boulevard (south terminus - Margaret Street), Seventh Avenue (Drexel Avenue - Northview Avenue), and Sixth Avenue (Dawson Avenue - Cassady Avenue.
This ordinance appropriates $202,000.00 within the Special Income Tax Fund and transfers this money to the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund where it is appropriated and authorized for expenditure. This Special Income Tax Fund certification is a temporary measure until the City sells notes or bonds to fund this capital improvement and is necessary because the Transportation Division...
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