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Yorkville approves another $3.8 million in road construction · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville approves another three point eight million dollars in road construction.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Joey Weslow, This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlet. Moving into
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  Speaker 1: the height of roadway construction season, the City of Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: approved another three point eight million dollars in road improvements,
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  Speaker 1: ranging from roadway resurfacing and concrete patching. This year, the
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  Speaker 1: city is pairing its twenty twenty six Local Roads Program,
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  Speaker 1: which is primarily focusing on the areas of Fox Highland
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  Speaker 1: and portions of Raintree Village, with the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: Road to Better Roads Project, which is improving the areas
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  Speaker 1: of River's Edge and Briarwood. The Road to Better Roads
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  Speaker 1: program is funded through motor fuel tax funds allocated by
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  Speaker 1: the Illinois Department of Transportation. The Local Roads Project does
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  Speaker 1: not use state funding and is funded through city dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The city has two programs because the motor fuel tax
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  Speaker 1: funds are not enough to cover all the paving the
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  Speaker 1: city has scheduled. As part of this year's Road to
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  Speaker 1: Better Roads work. A one million, three hundred two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred sixty three dollars contract was awarded to Construction Inc.
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  Speaker 1: From Coal City. City Council approved the contract during the
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  Speaker 1: April twenty eighth meeting. Contained within the contract are plans
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  Speaker 1: to resurface the areas around West Wind, Cornerstone and Woodsage.
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  Speaker 1: Workers will also be resurfacing the areas around Wyndham, Tyler Creek,
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  Speaker 1: Sharon Kelly and Redhorse. Also described within the contract is
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  Speaker 1: concrete patchink work for the Minard, market View and Countryside area.
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  Speaker 1: For the Local Roads Program, the city approved a one
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  Speaker 1: hundred nine thousand, five hundred seventy four dollars contract with
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  Speaker 1: Engineering Enterprises in from Sugar Grove for construction engineering services.
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  Speaker 1: The work focuses on resurfacing areas in the River's Edge
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  Speaker 1: and Cornerstone Side divisions. The work also entails continued concrete
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  Speaker 1: repairs on e Countryside, Parkway, market View, Minard, and Carpenter Street,
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  Speaker 1: eyeing additional roadwork. Yorkville recently approved a combined contract totaling
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  Speaker 1: around two point four to three million dollars with Builders
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  Speaker 1: Paving LLC of Hillside and EI for engineering services. The
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  Speaker 1: work is part of the Local Roads Program and focuses
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  Speaker 1: on roadway resurfacing and sidewalk repair in the areas of
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  Speaker 1: Fox Highlands and portions of Raintree Village. The project came
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  Speaker 1: in around three hundred thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars
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  Speaker 1: under budget, enabling the city to consider roadwork at additional locations.
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  Speaker 1: City council approved resurfacing Church Street from West River Street
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  Speaker 1: to West Center Street. It also approved widening the turn
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  Speaker 1: radius at the intersection of Church Street and W. River Street.
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  Speaker 1: The city is also extending the sidewalk on White Oak
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  Speaker 1: Way all the way to Fox Road. All the new
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  Speaker 1: projects are costing the city one hundred forty thousand, forty
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  Speaker 1: seven dollars. Builders Paving LLC was also used for the
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  Speaker 1: city's twenty twenty five Local Road Program. A closer look
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  Speaker 1: at the construction. The overall project includes the following pavement patching,
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  Speaker 1: pavement milling, pavement resurfacing, curb and gutter removal and replacement,
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  Speaker 1: sidewalk removal and replacement, driveway removal and replacement, structure adjustments,
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  Speaker 1: pavement markings, crack ceiling, and other restoration improvements. According to
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  Speaker 1: details of the bid, milling is when workers remove the
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  Speaker 1: top layer of existing pavement to overlay the roads with
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  Speaker 1: a new layer of fresh, smooth asphalt. The local road
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  Speaker 1: program focuses on catching up on improving streets in subdivisions
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  Speaker 1: where work has been lagging since the recession year's two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven to two thousand and nine. This is
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  Speaker 1: the third year of a four year program to complete
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  Speaker 1: paving throughout all the city's subdivisions. The program follows twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three million dollars plan that included pavement rejuvenation, involving
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  Speaker 1: repairing small cracks in roads with a special treatment to
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  Speaker 1: improve roadway flexibility. This process helps improve the durability of
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  Speaker 1: the city's roads, saving money over time. The city has
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  Speaker 1: said it is close to completely catching up before it
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  Speaker 1: can implement a more regular, rotating annual roadway improvement schedule.