The Village of Saddle Rock Board of Trustees on Wednesday unanimously approved a contract to have three and a half miles of village roads repaved for the first time in more than 20 years.
“I’ve been in the village more than 20 years and nothing has been paved,” Village of Saddle Rock Mayor Dan Levy said. “Some of the roads haven’t been touched in 40 years.”
The work will be done by J&R Asphalt and Paving for $940,000, Levy said at the meeting.
The village had also received a bid for the work by John McGown for $1,219,525, but decided to vote for the lower option.
The village had previously paved half of a mile on Emerson Drive And Walters Place at a cost of approximately $220,000, and a mile of Gristmill Lane, Stevenson Drive, and Whitman Road for approximately $293,000.
But, Levy said, the work was not what the village was looking for, as contractors used one inch of tar on the roads instead of two.
“All of us agreed that it didn’t come out to the way we wanted to,” Levy said. “All of us agreed that it wasn’t the quality we were looking for.”
Deputy Mayor David Schwartz said that the new contract would equate to roughly $300,000 a mile of paving, where the previous job of one and a half miles had been approximately half a million.
“It’s substantially less expensive and we’re doing a better job,” Levy said.
Work on the village roads will be completed by August, according to Levy.
