Princeton City Council awards over $600,000 in road maintenance bids

Princeton City Council held a brief meeting on Monday and approved more than $600,000 over three road maintenance bids to Advanced Asphalt for upcoming city construction.

The first bid was approved in the amount of $96,864.90 from the city’s tax referendum fund.

This work is scheduled to include parts of West Clark Street from North Plum to North Gosse Street; East Washington Street from Vernon to Church Street; West Washington Street from Knox Street to the dead end; Mercer Street from West Washington to Wilmot Street and the alleyway from East La Salle Street to Eas Clark Street.

Princeton council then approved a $248,653.10 bid to Advanced Asphalt from the city’s Rebuild Illinois funds.

The work scheduled to be completed as part of the state program includes Dover Road from Euclid Avenue to Elm Place and South First St. from East Peru Street to Park Avenue West.

The final road maintenance bid approved to Advanced Asphalt was granted from the city’s motor fuel tax funds in the amount of $317,324.40.

This bid is scheduled to include work on East Columbus Street from South Main to South Church Street; West Park Avenue East from Soldier and Sailors Park to Euclid Court; West Clark Street from Linn Street to 1530 W. Clark; Marion Street from Church to Pleasant Street; Railroad Avenue from the railroad to Beech Street and East Washington Street from Church to Chestnut Street.

“It’s late in the season, but the bids came in fairly well considering the times that we are in right now,” said City Manager Theresa Wittenauer. “The main reason these are a little bit late is because we had to get some clearance and approval from IDOT.”

Wittenauer said the city wanted to package these three bids together in order to get the best price available.

Wittenauer also mentioned the city also came between $70,000 and $75,000 below budget for road maintenance. In the coming weeks the city will be looking as some smaller projects it has identified throughout city to see what can be accomplished with the remaining funds.

“We’ll have a lot of street work coming up this month and next,” Mayor Joel Quiram added.

Aside from approving various road construction, the council also reappointed Matt Keutzer and Carol Bird to three-year terms on the Plan Commission/Board of Appeals, which will end on April 30, 2025.

The Princeton City Council will meet next at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6 at City Hall, 2 S. Main St.