City Council discusses street sealant project
A City Council meeting with 17 items on the agenda might have seemed daunting. But the Hillsboro Council made good progress during its biweekly meeting Tuesday night, covering a plethora of issues from street sealant to tooth sealant.
At the meeting, City Administrator Steve Garrett announced plans to apply street sealant to several Hillsboro roads.
Hillsboro received a low bid of $24,700 from Hi-Plans Sand of Emporia to apply 38,000 square yards of sealant.
Streets to be sealed include Third Street, the 300 block of Jefferson, North Cedar and Birch, West B, the Memorial Park drive, Carriage Hills streets, and the parking lot of the Adobe House.
Council member Len Coryea expressed concerns that in past street sealing expeditions, not all cars were removed from the road.
But Garrett said not to worry.
"We can get those off the street," he said.
If applied properly, the sealant should last eight to 10 years, said engineer Bob Previtera.
Also at Tuesday's meeting, Hillsboro resident Michael Wadkins was awarded the city's EMT scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded annual to a student enrolled in an EMT or first-responder course. The scholarship covers the cost of the course and textbooks.
According to the guidelines of the scholarship, after Wadkins finishes his EMT coursework, he'll be required to serve as an EMT responder for the City of Hillsboro for one year.
In other business:
— Engineer Rose Mary Saunders, with Reiss and Goodness Engineers of Wichita, reported that two condemned residences in north Hillsboro have been demolished.
Houses at 306 and 309 N. Washington have been destroyed and all debris removed, Saunders said. The total cost for both is $10,700.
— The city has been awarded a dental care grant from the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund.
With the grant, the city gets $14,700 to supply tooth sealant and dental care, through local dentists, to needy children in the area.
"We're going to try to work with the school people to make sure the word gets out," Garrett said.
— The city paid $43,183.95 to APAC construction of Wichita for work done on South Washington.
According to the estimate seen by the Council, 79 percent of the project is done, with 94 percent of the allotted time used.
Some of the project delays are due to unexpected gas line work done by Greeley Gas, Previtera said. That caused APAC approximately one week's delay.
