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Even though they weren't on the agenda for the city council meeting, construction project updates garnered most of the attention during the short-lived meeting Monday night in the library meeting room at Five Points.
City Engineer Ken Newman gave updates on Dallas and Summit Road projects.
"Dallas Road is ahead of schedule ... I would expect that concrete work and all of driveways to be completed within a few weeks — at that point ... final shaping of gravel and hot mix (asphalt) maybe by mid-August," he said.
Newman said of Summit Road that the minor asphalt base is down, but "unfortunately as soon as they are going to open that ... we won't really see the use of that until Centennial is completed which they are hoping for in late November from what I hear from East Peoria. They've got some major utility relocation that hasn't even started that needs to be done yet."
He said there is an public informational meeting about Centennial Drive Phase 5 tonight from 5-7 at the Hopewell Grange on Grange Road.
The other project which is now under way is the construction of brick sidewalks on the Square. Newman said the construction was set to begin first thing this morning starting with the west side of the Square.
"The plan is to get each done one-third at a time and right now the plan is to do the west third first," he said. "The goal is to get the crosswalks completed in four weeks and additional work on the sidewalks (making them ADA-compliant) in the following few weeks."
The brick sidewalks are going in on the north — by Denhart Baking Co. — and south — by Parish's Pub — sides of the Square because those areas are under local control while the other two crosswalks across Walnut and Peoria Streets are technically under Illinois Department of Transportation control.
In other items, the board:
• Approved the resolution declaring personal property from the Washington Police Department — two white 2008 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors, one white 2006 Ford Crown Victoria and one gold 2004 Ford Crown Victoria — as "surplus property."
According to the memorandum from Police Chief Jim Kuchenbecker, the vehicles have been used by the police department for the past three to six years and have very high mileage.
The council then heard the first reading of a resolution to authorize the sale of the property.
Even though they weren't on the agenda for the city council meeting, construction project updates garnered most of the attention during the short-lived meeting Monday night in the library meeting room at Five Points.
City Engineer Ken Newman gave updates on Dallas and Summit Road projects.
"Dallas Road is ahead of schedule ... I would expect that concrete work and all of driveways to be completed within a few weeks — at that point ... final shaping of gravel and hot mix (asphalt) maybe by mid-August," he said.
Newman said of Summit Road that the minor asphalt base is down, but "unfortunately as soon as they are going to open that ... we won't really see the use of that until Centennial is completed which they are hoping for in late November from what I hear from East Peoria. They've got some major utility relocation that hasn't even started that needs to be done yet."
He said there is an public informational meeting about Centennial Drive Phase 5 tonight from 5-7 at the Hopewell Grange on Grange Road.
The other project which is now under way is the construction of brick sidewalks on the Square. Newman said the construction was set to begin first thing this morning starting with the west side of the Square.
"The plan is to get each done one-third at a time and right now the plan is to do the west third first," he said. "The goal is to get the crosswalks completed in four weeks and additional work on the sidewalks (making them ADA-compliant) in the following few weeks."
The brick sidewalks are going in on the north — by Denhart Baking Co. — and south — by Parish's Pub — sides of the Square because those areas are under local control while the other two crosswalks across Walnut and Peoria Streets are technically under Illinois Department of Transportation control.
In other items, the board:
• Approved the resolution declaring personal property from the Washington Police Department — two white 2008 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors, one white 2006 Ford Crown Victoria and one gold 2004 Ford Crown Victoria — as "surplus property."
According to the memorandum from Police Chief Jim Kuchenbecker, the vehicles have been used by the police department for the past three to six years and have very high mileage.
The council then heard the first reading of a resolution to authorize the sale of the property.
• Approved an ordinance to place a stop sign at the intersection of westbound Lexington Drive and Summit Drive upon completion of the Summit Drive construction project.
• Heard from alderman Gene Schneider who said he was concerned about the lack of progress on Sunnyland Plaza and the safety issues that have arisen because of it.
"One of the lights is hanging down and wires are exposed — it's just not safe."
Planning and Development Director Jon Oliphant said the city has reached out to the proprietors of the plaza.
"They are aware of all of the problems," Oliphant said. "We are expecting to hear from them within the next month, we've been assured."
