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County roads official outlines paving schedule, cautions on asphalt-price impacts
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Summary
An agency official told the committee that bids are due for precast materials, that much surface-treatment work is already under contract, and that full-depth reclamation work will be performed with traffic maintained; the official warned oil-driven asphalt prices are causing market fluctuation.
An agency official updated Winnebago County on upcoming roads work and contractor plans, saying bids for precast materials are due Friday and that surface-treatment work was largely put under contract earlier to hedge against price volatility. The official noted that oil and asphalt price swings have affected paving bids but that the county has secured many of its needs under contract.
On a planned full-depth reclamation (FDR) project, the official said the work will be executed largely at full width with traffic managed by a pilot car rather than repeated single-lane recycling. The official named a contractor (transcribed as "Euland" or "Euland Brothers") as having submitted a subcontractor for the FDR work and said a pre-construction meeting is likely. "It'll be about 22 feet now, and it'll be about 22 feet at the end," the agency official said when describing road width; he added that shoulders will be very limited and that work is expected in roughly two to three months.
The official advised that contractors may include contingency pricing to cover possible price increases and that the county tried to align surface treatments so contractors could purchase emulsions sooner. He recommended a pre-construction meeting to confirm staging and expected traffic controls, and said efforts will be made to dress and improve narrow shoulder areas where feasible.
The meeting did not record a funding breakdown, contract dollar amounts, or final project start dates; those items were not specified in the transcript.
