City gives nod to company for additional road projects

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City gives nod to company for additional road projects

Fri, 04/15/2022 - 01:58
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city is again calling on Lamp Rynearson to oversee road maintenance and repairs.

On April 4, the City Council approved Public Works Director Chad Birdsong’s request to hire the multiservice company for $47,400 for engineering work on this year’s milling, overlay and repair projects. The council voted 3-0-1, with Andrew Kowalski abstaining.

Per Birdsong’s March 28 memo to city leaders, the milling and overlay work is planned for multiple streets in Westwood Hills, a city subdivision, with repairs to road bases planned for Routes H and N, and the subdivision Cherry Hills.

The work on H and N – named St. Louis Avenue and South Marietta Street, respectively, inside Excelsior Springs – is “prep work for a chip seal project” slated for 2023, Birdsong stated in the memo and reiterated before the vote.

“We’ve had several of those subdivisions on that west side – Cherry Hills, Madison Park and Vintage – (that) have a lot of longitudinal cracking across the middle,” Birdsong told city leaders. “And (on) those streets, some’ll open up 2½ to 3 inches wide. So … (there) is going to be some deep milling on that.”

A Cherry Hill intersection that has experienced sinking “from utility cuts” will likely “get some curb work” and “driveway approach” repair, he said.

“That area might have (work done to) some sidewalks – maybe 50 or 60 feet as part of that whole depression,” Birdsong said.

As approved March 14 by the Transportation Trust Authority, the overall cost has an $800,000 cap, Birdsong stated.

The planned projects follow streetscaping done in 2021 that included North Jesse James Road. Lamp Rynearson served as project engineer.