LAKEPORT — The city improved several important roads during 2011 and staff has its eyes set on upgrading 11th Street this year.
“With good budgeting and proper staffing, we were able to address many of the main arteries. Our staff should be very proud; it was a ton of work,” Mayor Stacey Mattina said.
Road improvements continue to be a priority for the Lakeport City Council, according to City Manager Margaret Silveira. “Staff has been diligent in bringing those projects forward,” she said.
“I think it was really good and provided a great benefit to the citizens,” City Engineer Scott Harter said of the 2011 roadwork program, which consisted of four main projects.
The most significant one occurred on a 0.89-mile stretch of roadway that starts as Lakeshore Boulevard, becomes North High Street and ends as Clearlake Avenue.
A contractor completed a single chip seal and slurry seal on the road from Lange Street to North Main Street during mid-fall, according to Harter. The combined cost for work on the segment was roughly $226,000, he said.
Perhaps the most recognizable construction happened on an 800-foot section of Lakeport Boulevard just east of the Highway 29 on-ramps.
City staff did some preliminary work during the summer and a contractor followed with an asphalt overlay in the fall. Those improvements cost about $100,000, Harter said.
The county helped the city with a project on Martin Street west of the fairgrounds entrance to the city limits, according to Harter. The work associated with the 0.73-mile stretch amounted to about $39,000, he said.
The final project upgraded a quarter-mile portion of Parallel Drive from the AAA building to the Calvary Baptist Church.
City staff applied a thin overlay on the road, using about $24,000 worth of materials to date, Harter said.
Striping still has to be done on the Parallel Drive and Martin Street project areas.
A chip seal will be applied on a significant portion of Parallel Drive during 2012 after the completion of underground work associated with the new Mendocino College Lake Center site, Harter said.
City road crews also did routine maintenance work throughout the year, fixing potholes, cleaning ditches and the like, according to Harter.
Staff plans to present a list of capital improvement projects to the council later this year, according to city officials.
Harter said that putting a chip seal on 11th Street could be the next priority for the city”s pavement management program.
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