Sun Valley to
resurface Elkhorn Road next
month
By GREGORY
FOLEY
Express Staff Writer
Sun
Valley City Council members last week approved a plan to resurface a
busy section of Elkhorn Road later this summer.
The panel
awarded a $357,000 contract on Tuesday, July 16, to Nampa-based Idaho
Sand & Gravel to repave both sides of Elkhorn Road from City Hall to
a point near the intersection with Village Loop Road, City Administrator
Dan Pincetich said.
Pincetich
said that "starting in August" the road will be torn up with
special machinery that will recycle the old road surface material into a
base for the new road. After the recycled base is complete, the road
will be repaved with new asphalt and painted with lane stripes.
After the
city solicited bids on the project last spring, it received an offer
from Idaho Sand & Gravel to do the work for a cost of approximately
$445,000.
After
city officials determined that the project could be done for less, they
proposed to the council that the city approve a less-valuable contract
that did not include plans to chip seal the roadway.
Pincetich
said the chip-seal project would be handled in the future as a separate
project.