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Lancaster outlines major road and bridge projects, staff authorized to seek bids
Summary
City Engineer Jeff Baird presented plans for a $3 million Arbor Valley Drive redesign timed with a new high school, a federally funded bridge replacement, annual street levy paving, Whiley Road reconstruction near a Google site and ODOT repaving agreements; the items were listed to authorize SSD to advertise for bids.
City Engineer Jeff Baird briefed the Finance Committee on Dec. 1 on a cluster of capital projects the minutes say city staff will take to procurement. Baird described a roughly $3 million total redesign and reconstruction of Arbor Valley Drive timed to coincide with the opening of a new high school. The minutes state the related resolution would allow the city service department (SSD) to advertise for bids.
Baird also summarized the annual Street Improvement paving project funded by Street Levy dollars and provided a list of streets slated for work. A separate item addressed a bridge the city needs to replace; minutes indicate the city received a federal grant that will cover the majority of the project cost and that SSD should be authorized to advertise for construction bids.
The minutes further record a Whiley Road reconstruction near a Google site, noting $2.1 million already provided to the city by Google for that project, and an item to allow the city to enter into agreements with the Ohio Department of Transportation for repaving state routes within city limits. Where the minutes use the name "Beard" in one item, they elsewhere identify City Engineer Jeff Baird; spelling inconsistencies appear in the minutes and have been normalized here to "Jeff Baird." The record does not show vote results; the listed items are procedural authorizations to move to bidding.
