Overland Park council approves $4.47 million in street-preservation contracts after public concern about chip seal

The Overland Park City Council on March 3 approved two bid awards to Vance Brothers LLC totaling $4,467,955.21 for the city’s 2025 street-preservation program, after a public comment urging reductions in chip seal and a staff presentation explaining the program mix and timing.

Councilmembers voted separately to approve preservation Part 1 for $1,937,044.61 and preservation Part 2 for $2,530,910.60. Councilmember John Mosher made the motions to approve both items; both passed on unanimous roll call.

The measures matter because the bids fund most of the city’s scheduled pavement-preservation work for 2025, a year when the city’s overall program is larger than in recent years. In public comment before the council voted, resident Jeff Kosen said the city’s residents had expected the extra infrastructure sales-tax revenue to hasten removal of chip seal from the maintenance program and warned that repeated chip-seal applications postpone needed rehabilitation.

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