Lakeside City discusses quality of road repairs
The Lakeside City city council approved a payment of $239,314.87 to Freeman Paving for the asphalt and patch work it has done while voicing their displeasure with the chip seal work during its meeting Tuesday, Jan. 18.
The $239,000 represents roughly half the cost of the ongoing streets repair and resurfacing projects ongoing within city limits. The city council was not ready to pay the other half for the chip sealing of roads due to their concerns with the quality of work.
“The chip seal is not working,” City Administrator John Strenski said. “That’s just the flat out honest truth and If you talk to Freeman the main issue with chip seal is that during the day the temperatures were great for chip seal. The problem was at night it was becoming too cool and so their oil asphalt mix that they put down, and they put the rocks down on it, was becoming brittle.”
He added the brittleness causes the rocks to lose the ability to hold onto the mixture which is causing the large amount of rocks to fall off.
“If we were able to have gotten the project off the ground when everybody had talked about it in August timeframe we probably would have been fine,” Strenski said. “The east side still is holding pretty, but there’s other streets that, frankly, just are not. You take a look at Caprock Cove and the rocks and it’s just like a dirt road at this point.”
The City Administrator said city engineer Dean Hinton, with Corlett Probst and Boyd, told him that there is a bond in the contract that will fix the problem with no money out of the city’s pocket. However, he said the city will have to wait until the summer for the chip seal work to be fixed and completed as the Freeman is no longer going to perform chip seals until the weather is warmer.
“It’s going to be fixed. It has to be fixed and the money is there,” Strenski said.
The paving company is set to start a culvert replacement project this week which will close the intersection of Shoreline and Skyline Drive for a few days.
The council voted unanimously to approve the payment.
“I would just ask the council before we approve anything else to make sure we're happy with the work,” Mayor Cory Glassburn said. “For the record, our goal is to make sure that they are compliant within the contract and the standards set before them and we will hold Dean and the engineering firm we hired for this accountable to that.”
Other items:
The council approved the payment of $6,710.10 to LoneStar Waste Services for 91 septic tank inspections to date.
The council approved the payment of $17,800 to Longo Landscape and Yard Service for a drainage channel project near 801 Shoreline Drive.
The council ordered an election for May 7. The-Mayoral seat, District 1 Place 1 East and District 2 Place 1 West council seats are up for election.
The council held preliminary discussion about options for the Flock Camera System as the city’s contract with the company is set to expire June 1.
Strenski said the city is making good progress on removing 40 dead trees, trimming live trees and painting exposed metal in the pavillions in the city park.
