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Harbor board backs recommendation to send South Harbor paving project to assembly
Summary
The Harbor Board voted to recommend that the assembly consider a South Harbor parking-lot and drive-down dock paving project, citing extensive wear, high mobilization costs for importing dense rock and available enterprise-fund reserves to help pay.
The Petersburg Borough Harbor Board recommended forwarding a proposed paving project for the South Harbor parking lot and drive-down dock to the assembly after staff described extensive pavement deterioration and the engineering and mobilization costs required to fix it.
Staff explained that the most cost-driving item is mobilizing dense rock by barge because appropriate material is not locally available. "That number is, you know, 1.23 hundred thousand of it is mobilization," staff said, describing the barged rock volumes and why mobilization is expensive.
The board discussed alternatives and timing; staff said the work could be scheduled in May–June but acknowledged the period coincides with busy harbor use. Staff noted the harbor’s enterprise fund balance of $4.6 million and said about $500,000 is already committed, but the board indicated it has the funds to match federal or grant opportunities if the assembly approves.
A motion to recommend the paving project to the assembly was moved and seconded; the roll-call vote recorded a majority in favor with one recorded 'no' on the transcript at the roll-call point.
What happens next: Staff will include project details and cost estimates in the assembly packet and discuss potential funding sources, including an enterprise-fund match and possible general-fund contributions subject to assembly approval.
