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Road resurfacing update from Alderman Pawar

From his email updates. You can sign up for these updates at http://chicago47.org/

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Letter from Ameya

Dear Neighbor,

Many of you have been wondering why there are some roads in the ward where the surface was removed (milled) and no resurfacing has taken place. For the past month, we have been working on the 2011 aldermanic menu. In order to get roads and alleys resurfaced in the 2011 construction season we had to move quickly. This is why we asked for your input and ideas on resurfacing projects. But there was an additional wrinkle – there were carryover resurfacing projects from previous years that were scheduled for this summer. These projects were necessary but our team found there was significant overlap between our projects and where People’s Gas was planning to work in the roadway. That is, our team discovered that the City was going resurface streets and then People’s Gas would have to tear them up again right after to complete their utility work.

 

In late May, I put a halt to all resurfacing projects in the 47th ward until a thorough review was completed. What we found was that there was nearly $300,000 in aldermanic menu allocations and over $700,000 in State of Illinois funding for road projects in the ward. While we are still investigating, here is what we now know:

  • Not all resurfacing projects are impacted. Some of the Peoples Gas work will only be done in the parkway. This work will not impact resurfacing and inadvertently waste tax dollars.
  • There are at least 3 projects where tax dollars (City or State) would have resurfaced the road, that would have then been torn up later this summer.

We are confirming the three projects and will be working with CDOT and Peoples Gas to coordinate projects so taxpayer dollars are not wasted. For now, we estimate that hundreds of thousands of dollars will be saved through better coordination. But more importantly, we are working collaboratively with the Chicago Department on Transportation to fix any coordination problems between utilities, CDOT and the 47th ward office. During the campaign, I heard countless stories on resurfacing projects that lacked coordination. I am going to work to fix this problem because this doubling up of efforts is likely happening city-wide. If we have saved a couple hundred thousand dollars in the 47th ward then think about how much can be saved city-wide by simply coordinating projects. Next, think about how much could have been saved over many years. The potential savings of tax-dollars is staggering.

 

While I don’t have all the answers yet, the 47th ward team is working hard to get them. We may not be able to get it all fixed immediately and we are sorry for any temporary inconvenience.

Stay tuned for more details. We are still planning on an aldermanic menu town hall in the near future. Thank you for your patience and input.

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