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Yorkville adopts $1.47 million roads project, focusing on River’s Edge and Briarwood · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville adopts one point four to seven million dollar roads
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  project focusing on River's Edge and Briarwood. Written by Joey Weslow.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. Yorkville is going ahead with a
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  one point four to seven million dollar roads project to
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  improve the pavement quality and extend the lifespan of the
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  city's roadways. The twenty twenty sixth Road to Better Roads
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  project is focusing on the areas of River's Edge and Briarwood.
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  The city is also resurfacing and concrete patching the pavement
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  in the area near Minards. The city submitted a request
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  to the Illinois Department of Transportation for revenue from the
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  twenty twenty six motor fuel tax program to help fund
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  the project. The city said three twenty five thousand dollars
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  coming from those funds would be used to offset costs
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  keep getting those roads done. Mayor John Purcell said during
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  the Jailanuary twenty seven city Council meeting, we're catching up,
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  almost done with those subdivision clusters. The city approved in
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  September a ninety five THOY nine hundred and fourteen Dant
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  Engineering agreement with Engineering Enterprises, Inc. For the roadwork. Yorkville
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  first launched its Road to Better Roads program in twenty thirteen.
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  The city has renovated streets using money for motor fuel
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  taxes for more than a decade. Each year, the costs
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  for the program has been about one point six million dollars.
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  The program runs in tandem with the city's Local Road program,
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  which is not covered by motor fuel tax funds. The
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  Local Road program focuses on catching up on improving streets
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  and subdivisions where work has been lagging since the recession
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  years two thousand and seven two thousand and nine. The
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  city has said it is closed to completely catching up
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  before it can implement a more regular, rotating annual roadway
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  improvement schedule.