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WEIRTON The city is planning for this year’s street paving program, with a pair of resolutions set to go before Weirton Council during its meeting Monday.
The resolutions received recommendations from the city Finance Committee Wednesday.
Contracts, if approved, will include $859,280 for citywide milling and paving using general fund dollars, and $352,836 through Community Development Block Grant funds.
Both contracts are with Kelly Paving Co.
Public Works Director Rod Rosnick explained, in planning for the paving, he looked at last year’s costs of $22 per yard, and budgeted $24 per yard. Most bidders, he said, submitted proposals higher than that amount, but Kelly Paving bid between $17 and $18 per yard.
BREWSTER Members of the Finance Committee last week raised concerns over how costs associated with School Choice programming will drive up the overall cost of the proposed Nauset Regional High School project.
In a presentation to the Finance Committee earlier this month, committee member Robert Young voiced concerns not only with the $132 million capital cost of the project, $96 million of which would be absorbed by the four district towns, but also the estimated $4 million to $5 million cost of subsidizing School Choice at the high school.
Young presented data from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, including total School Choice reimbursement figures, tuition costs paid by
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WEIRTON The City of Weirton will be purchasing new radios for use by the city’s police and fire departments.
No comments were made prior to a 7-0 vote in favor of the purchase during Tuesday night’s special council meeting, but the issue was discussed during a special Finance Committee meeting that morning.
“We have some major holes in coverage,” City Manager Joe DiBartolomeo explained.
The cost, according to officials, breaks down to approximately $3,000 per month for the purchase of and service on 102 radios and relay system.
Fire Chief Kevin Himmelrick noted the new system, which will be provided and serviced through Lauttamus Communications, will take their communications from analog to digital.