Union residents traveling down North Street may want to plan an alternate route as work is set to being to give the road a fresh layer of asphalt.
In an April 7 meeting of the Union Board of Aldermen, Mayor Wayne Welch said the city received two bids for paving North Street from the 4-way stop to Industrial Circle. The scope of the project, he said, included milling down the top two inches of the road and laying approximately 955 tons of asphalt.
The two bids the city received were from TL Wallace Construction, out of Columbia, Mississippi, for $155,457 and a $144,785 bid from Custom Paving in Lake.
The board voted to accept the lowest bid from Custom Paving with the condition County Engineer Duane Stanford, who is working with the city on the project, sign off on the bid documents.
Welch said the city was planning to cover the bulk of the expense with a $150,000 grant. In addition to the road work, he said there would be an additional $8,000 engineering fee. The total cost of the project is expected to be about $153,000, of which about $3,000 would come from city funds.
