City looks to repair pot holes

The Clarendon Board of Aldermen discussed street maintenance issues during the regular city meeting on May 11.

Interim City Administrator Phyllis Jeffers said that Fu Benavidez with the Texas Department of Transportation had worked on pot hole patching with city employees on May 10. The city is doing the best it can with what they have to work with, Jeffers told the board.

Jeffers named Nathan Jaramillo to be the city’s street project coordinator and said she had instructed him to section off the city and repair streets one section at a time instead of taking a scattered approach.

Alderman Larry Hicks raised the possibility of using inmate labor to assist city workers with street repairs, and Jeffers said she would look into this.

The board also discussed a $20,000 seal coat project for this summer, and Jeffers recommended seal coating the streets that were paved in 2003 to help maintain them.

“Seal coating on some of our older streets would be a waste of time,” Jeffers said.
The project would seal nine or ten blocks, and the city engineer would select the blocks that would benefit the most from the work.

The board approved the seal coat project unanimously.

In other city business, aldermen approved a $360 per month contract with KEFH radio to promote the city using Motel Bed Tax Funds, agreed to sponsor the JRCA Rodeo held here May 15-16 with $2,500 from the Motel Bed Tax Fund, and also agreed to spend $500 from Motel Bed Tax Funds to sponsor a Summer Celebration event on the Courthouse Square as hosted by News Channel 10 from Amarillo.

The board approved a computer maintenance contract with Texas Panhandle CyberMedics for $230 per month and accepted a bid on tax delinquent property as presented by the appraisal district.

The board also canvassed the results of the May 8 election, and the oath of office was administered to Aldermen Will Thompson, Kyle Davis, and Jeremy Powell.