The Salem City Council has approved a bid to replace curb and guttering on two city streets.
Public Works Director Annette Sola says T and L Contracting, Inc was under budget with their $82,317 bid.
“This has been a long time coming. If you have been down that area, the 200-300 block of Woodland Drive, there are several areas where the gutters are twisted up and water has gotten underneath them. This will not fix all of them, we will have to do it in phases, but this will get a big chunk of the worst part of it.”
Sola says the contract will also allow two sections of curb and guttering on Hawthorne Estates Drive to be replaced. Since the bid is under estimate some additional work may be completed in the same area. T and L Contracting was one of five bidders.
Another bid was awarded to McCoy Construction and Roof to install a pitched roof on the office portion of the Waste Water Treatment Plant. She says the old roof which has been problematic for the past seven years will be torn off and replaced. Sola says there was some water damage inside the plant office from the leaks.
The City Council approved a special use permit for T-Squared Holdings, LLC to utilize the former Paradise Flowers building at 730 North Broadway for a property management office. They have already renovated the building. Mayor Nic Farley and several councilmen thanked T-Squared for their investment and for putting the long-vacant building a new use.
