Village of Roslyn Estates trustees on Monday deferred a decision to award a bid for a road repair project, choosing instead to revise their proposal to include additional work throughout the village.
The project was put back out to bid to gauge the cost differential between the two proposals, trustees said, and determine whether the village could get a better deal for the work.
“We all agree, it should save us some money. It would mobilize the machinery so they could do it cheaper, so let’s do that,” Roslyn Estates Mayor Jeff Schwartzberg said. “Let’s roll on this.”
Village Clerk Bryan Rivera said Roslyn Estates received a $75,538 bid from American Paving and an $80,277.50 estimate from John McGowan & Sons.
The work, Rivera said, includes the repairing of potholes and curbs and the repaving of various sections of the village’s residential and commercial roads.
But upon riding around the village with James Antonelli, the director of planning and environmental services with Sidney Bowne & Son, Rivera said additional streets not included in the initial proposal were found to be in need of repair.
Rivera said Antonelli estimated the newfound sections would cost an additional $36,000 to repave. The village has $140,000 in available funds from the state Department of Transportation’s Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement program.
Village Attorney Christopher Prior said legal notices for the revised project could be posted as early as Tuesday, adding that the board could approve either proposal within 45 days of the initial bid.
In other developments:
• The board unanimously approved a local law increasing the allowable floor area ratio of a residence within the village by up to 800 square feet.
The law was introduced during the board’s May 11 meeting but trustees postponed a vote in compliance with Nassau County Planning Commission regulations.
Prior said the commission requested additional information about the proposed law and later approved it for a board vote.
“You can’t act until you resolve it,” he said. “We did that.”
Schwartzberg said that because sky plane, front yard and side yard setback requirements did not change as a result of the law, most of the future modifications would likely take place in the rear of most homes and would not impact the village’s aesthetics.
• Deputy Mayor Jeff Lindenbaum said in his monthly budget report that the board will have spent $87,000 less than the $1,374,257 it had appropriated for 2013-14 when the fiscal year ends on June 30.
The board took in $84,500 in unanticipated revenues, he said, mostly from permits issued within the village.
Lindenbaum also said the village did not spend any of the Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement program funds budgeted for 2013-14 or any of its $25,000 contingency budget.
• Rivera said the state transportation department has begun an investigation to determine whether to put a left turn signal on Northern Boulevard to appropriately guide motorists onto The Locusts.
“To be honest, I thought it’d take a year just to get a response from them,” Schwartzberg said. “But we should hear from them again within the next 90 days.”
