Kettering City Council on Tuesday night approved a package of measures to seek bids on an estimated $6.72 million for sidewalks and curbs, roads, a pedestrian bridge, and construction of a bike path connector.
Council also passed a resolution allowing the city to spend about $1.94 million to buy 20 vehicles and equipment for several departments, mainly for streets and public safety.
Kettering City Manager Matt Greeson said the number of new vehicle and equipment purchases is not unusually high.
“We have a significant fleet operation to support a wide and varied array of services,” he said. “This a combination of equipment, larger vehicles that support operations and our more routine vehicles.”
Credit: Kettering Police Department
Credit: Kettering Police Department
The measures council approved represent about 64% of the $13.5 million capital improvement fund in the 2024 budget passed last month.
They include more than $1.5 million in federal and state funding, about one third of which will go toward improving David Road from Far Hills Avenue to Ackerman Boulevard, Kettering Assistant City Manager Steve Bergstresser said.
That work “is kind of a catch-all project for what we are going to be doing” because it involves a variety of improvements, Bergstresser said.
It will include curb and driveway work, reconstructing parts of the street, and replacing traffic signals at David and Ackerman before repaving the road.
Other projects, according to city records, include:
* Redoing curbs, sidewalks and drive approaches, $2.18 million. This work will be done in the Newcom Knolls neighborhood across from the Tenneco plant, Dell Ridge just north of NCR Country Club, and Dellwood Estates along Mad River Road and West David Road.
About $500,000 is set aside for road resurfacing in those areas.
* The city’s 2024 street maintenance program, $2.175 million. It includes $1.6 million for general asphalt resurfacing, about $1 million of which will fund neighborhood resurfacing.
This will involve Woodman Drive from Dorothy Lane south to Danube Court, and South Dixie Highway from East Stroop Road north to Hoyle Place.
* Vehicles for streets, police, fire, engineering, facilities, and park maintenance through a cooperative purchasing program, $1.94 million.
* West Stroop Road sidewalk from Overland Trail to Southmoor Circle NW, $440,000.
* Construction of a Research Boulevard bike path connector, $350,000.
* West Avenue pedestrian bridge project, $250,000.
* Wilmington Pike and Wingview Lane drainage projects, $90,000.
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