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Peekskill DPW pitches hot-box purchase to speed pothole repairs and seeks contract extension
Summary
DPW Superintendent Chris Gross recommended a hot box to make pothole repairs with smaller crews, outlined common pavement failures, and asked council to authorize either an extension with last year’s contractor or a rebid of the 2025 paving program funded largely by CHIPS (~$650,000).
Chris Gross, Peekskill’s Department of Public Works superintendent, reviewed common pavement failures across the city — patch deterioration, alligator cracking and reflective cracking — and described both long-term and interim repair strategies. He said the city budgeted approximately $650,000 of CHIPS funding for the 2025 paving list and emphasized timing work to avoid Con Edison excavations that would require later restoration.
To speed pothole response and cut labor, Gross recommended procuring a hot box for asphalt work. "We recommended a hot box," he said, and described a trial on Mountain View Road where a smaller crew used a hot box to install an asphalt speed bump. Gross explained the hot box keeps material hot, reduces wasted material, and allows a two-person crew to operate pothole repairs more efficiently; the unit has an approximate two-month lead time. He also told council staff will bring a resolution next week to either extend the previous year’s contract with Laura Lee Industries — which, he said, is willing to hold price — or to go back out to bid for the 2025 paving program. Council members asked for the prior contract and the bid analysis before final action.
