MANSFIELD — Kokosing Construction Co. was awarded a $4,321,216.45 contract on Tuesday morning to resurface 18.8 miles of Mansfield streets in 2024.
Kokosing submitted the lowest of two bids submitted for the work, according to city engineer Bob Bianchi. The other bid came from Shelly & Sands , Inc. for $4,893,899.11.
The city’s Board of Control voted unanimously to award the work.
At that price, it will cost $229,851 per mile to have the annual work done, funded by the voter-approved Pothole Haters Tax.
(Below is a PDF showing maps and other information about the City of Mansfield’s 2024 road resurfacing program.)
“I really appreciate the competitive nature of these contracts,” Bianchi said. “I think both contractors sharpen their pencils and it provides a competitiveness to this work.”
The city receives about $3.7 million annually through the 0.25-percent municipal income tax that has assisted with local street repairs for almost four decades, renewed every four years by voters since its inception.
Mansfield City Council in January approved Bianchi’s request to seek bids for the repaving project.
The work will include about $18,800 for a section of North Main Street near the intersection with Longview Avenue that has experienced significant transverse cracking in the road and displaced “shoved” pavement.
The City of Mansfield has about 321 miles of streets, according to Bianchi.
“Construction is set to begin probably in April and completed by the end of October,” Bianchi told City Council in January. “It might run into November a little bit, but that’s when the program starts and ends.”
In other activity Tuesday, the Board of Control:
— approved a $43,400 engineering contract with K.E. MCCartney & Associates of Mansfield to design the redirection of a storm sewer built a few years ago that empties into Touby Run near Brooker Place and West Fifth Street.
The actual construction work, planned later this year, will cost between $300,000 and $400,000. It will prevent the erosion of the bank where storm water flows from a 48-inch storm sewer pipe.
Bianchi said a new $1 million storm sewer system was installed after a large sandstone box culvert, installed in the 1800s, collapsed in 2021 near Third Street and created a problem that required a significant solution for which the city used American Rescue Plan Acts to fix with a new storm sewer line to Touby Run.
“We had an outlet construction that we thought would armor the bank with rock channel protection and hoped it would withstand the force of the water coming out of the pipe,” Bianchi said.
“After a pretty significant flood we had this past year, water came out of that 48-inch pipe that it started to erode the slope,” he said. “We had a $1.3 million project, but we didn’t want to spend that $300,000 if we didn’t have to.”
— approved a $49,825 contract with BK Layer, LLC, from Perrysville to construct a 740-foot sanitary sewer line near the hangers at Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport.
Bianchi said “illicit discharges” were exposed during a recent project to reconstruct taxiways at the airport in lines that were not on the city’s “mapping system.”
“We need to get this rectified because the EPA is aware of this illicit discharge and they put us on notice on how quick we can get this resolved,” the city engineer said.
“We got a very competitive price from BK Layer and they are ready and willing to do the work,” he said.
— approved spending $73,000 in state grant money to fund the police department’s usage of automated license plate reader cameras through Flock Safety Technology.
The grant money from the Ohio Violent Crime Reduction Grant pays for 16 of the department’s 24 cameras.
The other eight are funded through a separate grant, according to police Chief Keith Porch.
The grant funds will fuel the program for the rest of 2024. Porch said MPD will continue to seek grants for the program.
If not, the city would need to decide whether to fund it through the general fund.
— approved spending $41,280 to purchase a 2024 Ram truck for Clear Fork Reservoir law enforcement usage.
