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City readies $3.6M in paving
Schenectady adds $900,000 to budget to speed pace of work

By CATHY WOODRUFF, Staff writer
First published: Tuesday, April 22, 2008

SCHENECTADY -- City officials are getting ready to roll with nearly $3.6 million in neighborhood street paving and repair projects this year.
     
The program includes more stretches of residential boulevards that the city has been tackling block by block over several years and several streets where repairs to water and sewer lines also are planned, Schenectady General Services Commissioner Carl Olsen said.
In most years, the city spends about $500,000 from the general fund on paving projects, but that will be bumped up by another $900,000 this year in a push encouraged by Mayor Brian U. Stratton to pick up the pace of street repairs, Olsen said.
Most or all of that $1.4 million portion of work will be funded with borrowing, Olsen said.
Other funding sources include the city's water and sewer funds, the state's Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPs) aid, and federal Community Development Block Grants.
This year's paving program includes:
Glenwood Boulevard and Parkwood Boulevard between The Plaza and Woodward Street; Mill Lane between State and South Ferry streets; Millard Street from Broadway to Veeder Avenue; Ontario Street from Rose Street to Broadway; and The Plaza between Parkwood and Glenwood boulevards.
Also:
Euclid Avenue between Guilderland Avenue and Genesee Street; Frank, Park and High avenues between Ward and Ray avenues; Ray Avenue from dead end to dead end; Hulett Street (phase one) between Hamilton and Strong streets; Stanley Street between Steuben and McClyman streets; Wendell Avenue between Eastern Avenue and Union Street.
Streets where significant work on water or sewer lines is expected as part of the paving projects are:
Eighth Avenue between Webster and Cutler streets; Walnut Street between Eastern Avenue and a dead end; Corlaer Street between Consaul Road and Van Dyke Street; and Stanford Avenue between Brandywine and Elmer avenues.
The first projects to get started are likely to be a handful left over from last year's planned program, Olsen said.
Those are: Foster Avenue between Seneca and Gerling streets; Close Street between State Street and Lottridge Avenue; North Ferry Street between Union and Front streets.

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The first projects to get started are likely to be a handful left over from last year's planned program, Olsen said.
Those are: Foster Avenue between Seneca and Gerling streets; Close Street between State Street and Lottridge Avenue; North Ferry Street between Union and Front streets.