ASHLAND — A section of Claremont Avenue is slated for resurfacing in 2024.
Ashland City Council approved of a $145,000 change order on Tuesday to the city’s $2.6 million street resurfacing contract awarded to Sarver Paving earlier this year.
The $145,000 will partly cover the resurfacing of Claremont Avenue between Smith Road and Jefferson Street.
Ashland Mayor Matt Miller said that work didn’t happen this year, but Sarver would return next year to finish the job.
“At this year’s rates,” Miller added.
The money will also cover the city’s late-season addition of the resurfacing of West Main Street and Brookside Drive. Those roads were resurfaced a few months ago as part of the contract that included work on 62 other roads.
“West Main, of course — if you paid any attention in that area — for about a year or more, it had all sorts of patches where we had made numerous repairs to a water main down through that area,” Miller said.
The mayor touted 2023’s street resurfacing project as the city’s largest-ever back in March. When crews finally started in August, work included the resurfacing of Columbus Circle, Mifflin and Katherine avenues, Eastlake Drive and others.
It also included the resurfacing of Third Street, which crews converted into a two-lane street concurrently.
The city’s street resurfacing program is funded by an income tax levy that voters first approved in 2016. It was renewed in 2020 and will last through 2025.
Since 2016, the program has led to the repaving of 131 of the city’s 315 streets, Miller has said.