At Monday’s public meeting, Corner Brook City council approved some change orders for this year’s pacing program. Assistant Director of Engineering, Aaron O’Brien explained how this is all part of the same contract but includes three different funding streams; Multi-year Capital Works cost shared with the provincial government, Federal Gas Tax and Capital Out of Revenue which is the city’s money
In the end, approval was given for over $493K to Marine Contractors Inc for final variances on quantities that were originally tendered. Original contracts rang in at over $1.3M on a $1.8M budget. With the added amount of these change orders, it’s coming in slightly under budget by more than $36K. O’Brien explained how contract costs are estimated at the start. Meanwhile, he says each year, they do an assessment on all roads in the city, called a “Pavement Condition Index,” which scores roads from zero to 100. The asphalt program has ended for this year and O’Brien says no local roads were touched since they didn’t have the budget.
Assistant Director Andrew Miller says the city’s patching program is based on smaller sections of road that need maintenance during the construction season, like repairing a water leak. He says so far, 76 locations have been patched totalling about 3K square metres. Miller said there’s still some another 20 locations to get done before the winter, which will put them $50k over budget.
