State grants help Boyne City fund 2024 road improvement plans
BOYNE CITY — Boyne City was recently selected to receive more than $400,000 in state grants to make road improvements in the city.
Boyne City City Manager Michael Cain said nearly $750,000 worth of road improvements will be worked on next summer.
The city will be going out to bid for the projects this winter.
“These roads are not necessarily in bad shape, but they're at the point where they need a certain amount of maintenance,” Cain said. “That’s where the different types of maintenance is applied to it to make sure we get the maximum life out of them.”
According to C2AE project manager Erik Cronk, the company helped the city determine what roads would need improvements based on different road ratings.
Improvements will be made on Vogel Street, Water Street, Main Street, Front Street and Pleasant Street.
Four different types of maintenance will be conducted on the roads, including two course mill and overlay, single course mill and overlay, single course chip seal and fog seal, and HMA surface removal and replacement.
The single course chip seal and fog seal is a preventative measure, Cronk said. Like the work being done on Vogel Street, asphalt emulsion will be put on top of the current roadway, creating a new wearing course, he said. A single mill versus two course mill is when they grind off one or two layers of road before putting on a new asphalt top course on top of the layers that were ground down. HMA surface removal and replacement is where a full removal and replacement will be done, grinding the road down to a gravel base before reconstructing and repaving two lifts of pavement.
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As the City of Boyne City’s engineering firm, C2AE helped the city determine the costs of the projects as well as what types of construction would need to be done on them.
The construction on Front Street is expected to cost $245,257. The Rural Task Force from MDOT will be covering $196,206 of that, with Boyne City covering $49,051. The other road projects are expected to cost $518,256. MDOT’s grant will be covering $250,000, and Boyne City will be footing a $268,258 bill.
Cain said he feels “really, really good” about the state funding coming into the city’s roads.
“We always try and leverage any local tax dollars as much as possible, and these two grants are giving us a great opportunity to take on work that needs to be done and to maximize the local taxpayers' dollars on them,” he said.
— Contact reporter Karly Graham at kgraham@petoskeynews.com. Follow her on Twitter at @KarlyGrahamJRN.
This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: State grants help Boyne City fund 2024 road improvement plans
