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Ledger, The (Lakeland, FL)
November 17, 2012
Work Starts Today on Resurfacing Projects in Dundee
Author: Phil Attinger
DUNDEE Town commissioners have approved changes that would add another $75,000 of work
to a repaving project on the main thoroughfare. It got in just under the wire. Middlesex Corp. is
scheduled to start work today to strip off old asphalt and repave Dundee Road. The changes will
add street approaches, driveways and some side streets off Dundee Road, which were not
included in Florida Department of Transportation improvements to the Dundee Road intersection
on U.S. 27.
Town Manager Andy Stewart said the total cost is now $188,808. Of that, he said, the Polk
County Commission has agreed to pay $13,640, leaving the city a bill of $175,168.
The original bid amount for just the travel lanes was $100,869, approved by the Dundee Town
Commission in late August. A budget amendment approved Tuesday would take $74,301 out of
the 5th-cent new local option gas tax reserve fund.
Stewart said the contractor has agreed to do noisy asphalt milling only during the day and to do
repaving at night to minimize disruption to residents. The project now includes the approaches to
Dundee Road from Martin Luther King Jr. Street and First Street, repaving on Lincoln Avenue,
resurfacing on Laura Street and Lemon Avenue and repaving the Town Hall and Town Library
parking lot.
Vice Mayor Catherine Volosin asked whether there is enough money left in reserve funds for a
traffic light at Martin Luther King Jr. Street. "We were waiting to hear about it," she said. "We've
needed it for years and it's getting worse."
Stewart said he will talk with the contractor about it.
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