by Olivia P. Tucker
Times Reporter
Scottsburg Board of Works awarded Libs Paving of Floyd Knobs, IN to mill and re-surface streets in the city of Scottsburg at their meeting on May 8. The Board of Works approved Libs bid of $332,906.35 for the work to be funded under the state awarded Community Crossings grant.
Other bidders were O’Mara Paving of North Vernon, $347,823.09; MAC Asphalt of Jeffersonville, $371,181.24; Wingham Paving of Charlestown, $381,165.81; All-Star Paving of Seymour, $281,949.02; E&B Paving of Bloomington, $421,836.01; and Hall Paving & Asphalt of Louisville, $469,570.10.
Mayor Terry Amick said that Jill Baker, the mayor’s assistant, wrote and was successful gaining three Community Crossing grants worth around $1 million per grant in 2022. He added that Baker discovered that there were 15 streets not in the city’s inventory and the streets were added which would mean extra funding for the city through the state gas tax. Gas tax funding is based on the number of miles of streets a community has recorded/
The addition of the streets to the city’s inventory allowed Baker to apply for another grant that was worth $500,000 for 2023, said Amick.
The following streets are to be milled and resurfaced this summer, Hooker Street, Thomas Court, Lynhurst Street , Owens Street, 4th Street, Lake Shore Drive, Miner Street, Main Street, Mansfield Drive, Wooded Trail, Dogwood Drive, Willow Shore Drive and Westavia Boulevard.