University Park awards mill-and-overlay contracts for roughly 12 lane miles of streets

University Park ' The City Council on April 1 approved two contracts for the city's biannual pavement mill-and-overlay program, awarding milling services to Industrial and asphalt overlay and sweeping to Texas Bit.

Keegan Littrell, director of public works, said the city selects streets using a pavement condition index (PCI) performed every other year. The streets chosen this cycle total roughly 12 lane miles, or about 200,000 square yards. "Totaling all these up, it comes to about 12 12 miles of roadway, or 200,000 square yards," Littrell said.

Littrell presented two bids: Industrial for milling at $834,951 and Texas Bit for paving and related sweeping at about $3,009,000, which Littrell said includes roughly $35,000 for sweeping. He gave a combined total of $3,840,000 for the two contracts. Littrell said the city often overestimates quantities and historically spends about 70% of the proposed amount on this program, which would put expected spending near $2.7 million; the capital projects budget currently contains about $2.3 million for this cycle.

Councilmember Melissa Grama moved approval of the Texas Bit contract (agenda item 25-066); the motion was seconded and carried on a unanimous vote. Grama later moved approval of the Industrial milling contract (agenda item 25-067); that motion also passed unanimously. Voting in favor were Melissa Grama, Philip Philbin, Mark Aldridge, Bob Myers and Mayor Tommy Stewart.

Littrell said contractors plan to start shortly after school lets out and to complete work during the summer months. He noted the city can manage cost if actual bids approach the $2.3 million budget by removing streets from the scope if necessary.

No members of the public addressed the council on the item during the meeting.