Valparaiso City Council members will vote Monday on an ordinance that could result in approval of “the largest paving program the city of Valparaiso has ever taken,” according to Valparaiso City Ma…
Heavy load street trucks and garbage trucks from Valparaiso city fleets from the Department of Public Works and Department of Streets and Sanitation rank among the “enemies” of paved streets and roadways as a result of the damage caused by the vehicles’ weight. Valparaiso City Council members will vote Monday on an ordinance that could result in approval of “the largest paving program the city of Valparaiso has ever taken,” according to Valparaiso City Manager Bill Oeding.
The ordinance passed a first reading unanimously at the Feb. 26 council meeting following a presentation by Oeding explaining usual totals afforded to the streets department annually for road projects have been around $4 million in recent years. The second reading, public hearing and final vote for the $8 million ordinance was supposed to be an action taken at the March 11 council meeting. However, Valparaiso Clerk-Treasurer Holly Taylor apologized for an oversight. Despite the item making the March 11 agenda, the public hearing had not officially been published in the local newspapers as a legal notice, failing the legal requirement that a notice must be published at least 10 days in advance of the vote and scheduled public hearing.
The Paser scale is a 1-10 rating system for road pavement conditions developed by the University of Wisconsin Transportation Information Center specifically for evaluating age and needs for resurfacing and compiled as a ranking system criteria in a manual published in 2002. “I guarantee if you ask any resident of Valparaiso which is the worst street in town, and in need of work and repaving, each person will say that it is their own street,” Oeding said.
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