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Poughkeepsie public works presents five-year paving plan, outlines CHIPS-funded priorities and sidewalk work
Summary
The Poughkeepsie Department of Public Works presented a five-year paving plan to the Common Council on May 20, emphasizing CHIPS funding, coordinated utility work, schools-area speed humps and targeted sidewalk actions including trip-hazard cutting.
Commissioner Jett, the city Department of Public Works commissioner, presented the department’s five-year paving plan to the Poughkeepsie Common Council on Tuesday, May 20, describing how the city will use recent state CHIPS funding to prioritize streets, sidewalks and traffic-control work.
The presentation matters because the plan maps resurfacing, crosswalk and curb work across wards and ties the schedule to limited contractor and plant capacity in the Northeast, storm-weather constraints and coordination needs with utilities such as Central Hudson.
Commissioner Jett said, “Paving and plowing are the 2 biggest things we do,” and described a visual grading process the department uses to choose streets. He told the council the city received “about, dollars 1,500,000.0” in CHIPS funds this year, roughly double what the city received…
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