Village of Clyde council approved the municipality’s capital budget last week and will meet the extended deadline of Aug. 1 to submit the document to the province.
At their July 8 meeting, councillors decided the village will spend $246,557 on sidewalk and street repairs in 2019 after passing two separate motions to direct $157,950 to street repairs and $88,607 towards sidewalk upgrades.
There is also an additional $50,000 carried over from 2018 which can be used to cover any unforeseen costs.
“What you’re doing is giving yourself full opportunity to move forward with the projects and not be held up by something, but also to have the control over what’s actually happening with the projects,” said CAO Ron Cust of the additional funds.
Councillors previously met for a July 4 committee of the whole meeting to discuss prospective projects the village would be undertaking this year and to assign priority to the projects they deemed most important.
They settled on six sidewalk projects and 10 street improvement projects, which will also include the installation of neo webbing on all the street construction for a cost of $31,590.
Several streets will be repaved, ranging from jobs worth a few thousand dollars to up to $28,800.
The bigger ticket sidewalks include repairs on the east side of 51 St. from 50 Ave. to 52 Ave. for $28,000 and the west side of 49 St. from 48 Ave. to 50 Ave. for $24,886.
Council then moved on to choosing the contractor to complete the work and settled on Spectre Systems, out of Mundare, a company that did roadwork for the village in 2016. Council agreed to award the contract for the sidewalks later in the week after further reviewing the quotes received.
“Maybe we should start getting it done because we’re quite a ways into the year already,” said Coun. Nat Dvernichuk.
