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July 10, 2009

Edwardsville to pave 11 streets

Project totaling over $335,000 to be financed by loan and grant funding.

IAN CAMPBELL Times Leader Correspondent

EDWARDSVILLE – In what Councilman David Stochla called “probably the biggest paving job since the flood,” the borough awarded an 11-street repaving project Thursday to Pennsy Supply, doing business as Slusser Brothers.

The company was the low bidder for the job, with a total of $335,314.20.

“A lot of people will be really happy with this,” Stochla said as he announced the list of streets.

The 11 streets involved are Cherry, Connally, Green, New Williams, Savage, Short, Bellas, Upper Main, Francis and Lincoln streets and Woodward Avenue.

The project will be financed by a combination of loan and grant funding, and will be paid for by continuing a millage set-aside that was introduced to pay for the previous roads project.

In other business, Edwardsville-Kingston Revitalization project coordinator Linda Zaneski said the project has advertised for engineering and architectural proposals and should learn by the end of the month whether it will need to take eminent domain action against one Main Street property owner who appears unwilling to accept a purchase offer for the property.

Two of the six properties have accepted the revitalization project bids, while the other four are still in the process of price negotiation.

The U.S. Housing and Urban Development part of the project will be met when representatives of HUD make a presentation related to residential property purchasing at the next revitalization committee meeting on July 28, Zaneski said.

Council also agreed to work with borough resident Mandy Myers, who had approached the borough about setting up municipality-wide systems to help all residents and businesses in the borough cut their electric power consumption on a regular basis.

In addition to setting up an educational component for residents to make them aware of energy hogging systems in their homes, Myers was also interested in looking at various municipal systems that could be changed to reduce power consumption, resulting in environmental and financial benefits.

These could include street lighting and traffic control systems, council noted.

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