Mokena Awards Bids For Road Maintenance Programs

MOKENA, IL — At its July 27 village board meeting, the Mokena board approved several bid awards for the fiscal year 2021 maintenance program. The board approved bids for the street patching program, sidewalk, curb and gutter repair program, crack filling program, street maintenance program, and the pavement marking program.

Street patching work includes 2,900 square yards of asphalt patching to repair damaged roadways, according to board documents. Austin Tyler Construction will do the work for $86,470. This bid came in $2,470 higher than the budgeted amount.

Sidewalk, curb and gutter repair work will be done by Strada Construction for $74,475. According to board documents, they will remove and replace 6,500 square feet of side walk and 500 lineal feet of curb and gutter. This bid came in $5,525 lower than the budgeted amount.

Denler, Inc., will perform crack filling for the village at a cost of $22,834.40. According to board documents, they will fill 74,448 lineal feet of pavement cracks. The bid came in $27,165.60 lower than the budgeted amount of $50,000.

Street maintenance will be done by P.T. Ferro Construction, while AC Pavement Striping Co. will do the pavement marking. Street maintenance will cost $976,464.11 to patch and resurface 2.82 miles of roads and will include streets in the Grasmere subdivision, board documents state.

The cost for pavement marking will be $30,075 to restripe 2.9 miles of roads.

Funding for some of these programs is provided by motor fuel tax funds and the .5 percent sales tax for roadway improvements approved by Mokena voters 18 years ago, board documents state.

At the meeting, trustee Joseph Siwinski said the street program this year has been scaled back "significantly."

"I think that it's important to understand that we did this collectively as a board in order to come up with a budget that we can work with in not knowing what our future revenue is going to be with the pandemic going on," he said.