DIDSBURY - At a special council meeting on July 24, council voted to award the contract for the 2019 asphalt rehabilitation and repairs tender to Rubydale Asphalt Works, a company based in Airdrie.
Mayor Rhonda Hunter said the special meeting was necessary to go over a couple of items that were missed at the last meeting.
"We had a couple of items that were missed for adding to the agenda in-camera," said Hunter. "They were about our road projects. There are a number of asphalt rehabilitation projects as well as 14 road repairs from water main breaks and sewer line issues over the winter."
Hunter said council approved the projects, which are scheduled to be completed by Sept. 30.
In total, there are 21 roadways approved for rehabilitation, repairs, and/or maintenance.
"We're pretty excited," she said. "That includes the 23rd Street project to the north. We seem to receive a lot of complaints about that. We transitioned that to a gravel road for now. It's such a bad road."
The motion for the awarding of the tender to Rubydale took place after completing appropriate negotiations for the water and wastewater patches and to add 10th Street to the contract.
As part of the same motion, council approved adding: the expenditure of up to $20,000 to be funded by general reserves for the asphalt rehabilitation schedules; an additional expenditure of up to $41,000 to be funded by water reserves; and an additional expenditure of up to $38,000 to be funded by wastewater reserves.
Craig Fox, Didsbury manager of public works, told the Gazette that the total cost of the tender is around $524,000.
"We have 21 roads involved," said Fox. "Some of it is repairs and maintenance; some of it operational expenditures. We had water and sewer main breaks last year and the beginning of this spring that punched a bunch of holes in the asphalt. So this tender is an all-inclusive that captures everybody."
In a separate motion, council voted to approve pulverizing the asphalt, adding additional granular material and apply dust suppression to 23rd Street North between the CPR tracks and the gravel pit.
Another motion saw council vote to direct administration to negotiate the inclusion of an additional scope of work for 10th Street from Highway 582 to the south side of the intersection with Valarosa Drive into the 2019 asphalt rehabilitation and repair contract.
