City finalizes street project

The Clarendon Board of Aldermen are expected to consider bids on a street curbing and paving project next month after they approved the scope of the project last Tuesday, February 25.

City engineer Clayton Scales reviewed plans for the project, and the board discussed curb placements and street widths. Officials will likely place bid notices for the project next week with bids tentatively being due back to City Hall by April 1 for board consideration on April 8.

The project calls for city employees will do the base work on the streets and for a contractor to perform the curbing and double-pass chip seal on most of the designated streets.

Clarendon voters approved a $700,000 bond issue for the project in May 2012, but the project was delayed after city leaders decided to replace water lines under most of the affected streets.

The project will include Sixth Street from Koogle to Goodnight Street; Third Street from Allen to Bugbee Avenue; Allen Street, from Third to Fifth; Sims Street from Third to Fourth (west side of Bronco Stadium); Carhart Street, from Sixth to Hwy. 287; and Wood Avenue.

The project also calls for seal coating Clarendon Avenue from Bugbee to its west end (along the south side of the Clarendon College campus) and Regent Avenue from US 287 to Clarendon Ave. (which winds up the middle of the CC campus by the Bulldog Gym).

In other city business last week: Aldermen listened to a presentation from Mica Owens-Weary of First Southwest Company regarding utilizing municipal investment pools as a financial alternative to traditional bank certificates of deposit but took no action on the presentation; voted to renew the Minor Curfew Ordinance; and approved a proposal to separate the animal control and code compliance job descriptions and make code compliance a contract position for the time being.