Rough Patch: Parkersburg City Council to hear updates on water utility project, road repairs
Workers with Stonegate Construction use asphalt to fill in a ditch where a water line was recently replaced on Moore Avenue off Hill Street, just outside of Parkersburg Friday. Stonegate is doing pavement restoration at sites in and outside the city as part of its contract with the Parkersburg Utility Board to replace approximately 30,000 linear feet of small-diameter water mains. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
A ditch is seen along Moore Avenue, just outside Parkersburg, as workers from Stonegate Construction work to fill it in Friday after replacing a water line. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Asphalt pours from the back of a Stonegate Construction truck Friday afternoon on Moore Avenue outside Parkersburg. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Workers with Stonegate Construction use asphalt to fill in a ditch where a water line was recently replaced on Moore Avenue off Hill Street, just outside of Parkersburg Friday. Stonegate is doing pavement restoration at sites in and outside the city as part of its contract with the Parkersburg Utility Board to replace approximately 30,000 linear feet of small-diameter water mains. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
A ditch is seen along Moore Avenue, just outside Parkersburg, as workers from Stonegate Construction work to fill it in Friday after replacing a water line. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Asphalt pours from the back of a Stonegate Construction truck Friday afternoon on Moore Avenue outside Parkersburg. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
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PARKERSBURG -- Parkersburg City Council will hear an update on water utility projects and consider the spending plan for federal funds when it meets Tuesday.
The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers on the second floor of the Municipal Building.
It will be preceded by a 6:30 p.m. session in the Glen Meeks Conference Room adjacent to council chambers during which members of the public can comment on the Community Development Block Grant and HOME Consortium budget on which council is expected to vote.
Council President Sharon Kuhl said she asked Parkersburg Utility Board Manager Eric Bennett to provide the update on the ongoing water system projects. Council allocated $7 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to the effort, which has a total price tag of more than $19 million. Kuhl said she wants to know when roads will be repaired after work on large- and small-diameter water mains is finished.
Some utility board members have expressed frustration with pavement restoration efforts on the $4.55 million small-diameter water main replacement project, which is being done by Stonegate Construction.
"They're still working at it," Bennett said Friday. "They're not totally caught up."
Kuhl said there were "major problems" with flooding at Camden Avenue and Division Street recently and she believed it was related to the ongoing work. But Bennett said it was a separate issue.
"We had a major water line break over there," he said. "And (the) drainage system couldn't handle the flow."
The action plan for the city's $887,696 in CDBG funds and $590,496 in HOME money was referred to the full council last week by its Finance Committee.
The CDBG plan includes $205,000 for Americans with Disabilities Act and infrastructure upgrades at city parks, $152,325 toward repayment of the section 108 loan for improvements at Point Park, $140,000 for general administration, $127,579 for the minor home repair program and $50,000 to reimburse up to $200 to residents who purchase and install security cameras.
The city administers the HOME Consortium for the entire county, including Vienna and Williamstown. That budget includes $150,000 for the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program, $100,496 for the Down-Payment Assistance Program and $100,000 to Habitat for Humanity of the Mid-Ohio Valley.
The full action plan can be viewed online, and comments submitted, on the city's website, parkersburgcity.com, under the Planning and Development, Reports, section.
Also on Tuesday's council agenda are resolutions to allow the temporary sale of beer and/or wine during Parkersburg Homecoming in August and reappointing Andrew Woofter III as administrative law judge.
The Personnel Committee will meet at 7 p.m. in the executive conference room on the second floor to consider an ordinance changing a job title in the floodwall division. If it is referred to the full council, that ordinance will also be on Tuesday's agenda.
Evan Bevins can be reached at ebevins@newsandsentinel.com.