A combination of Local Maintenance Improvement Grant and Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax funds are expected to finance the milling, resurfacing and striping of about 8.5 miles of streets throughout the city of Dalton.
Bids for the project are slated to close on March 13.
Per city documents, the entirety of the project is anticipated to be completed by Aug. 15.
Roughly 2.5 miles of Glenwood Avenue — spanning from Walnut Avenue to State Route 3 — is lined up for improvements. Another 1.4 miles of Tibbs Road improvements, stretching from Walnut Avenue to Shugart Road, is also included as part of the project.
Also included in the scope of the work is a roughly 4-mile stretch of Abutment Road, ranging from State Route 3 to Walnut Avenue, and a nearly 0.5-mile section of Tony Ingle Parkway along College Drive.
Under the contract, no work will be permitted for any of the improvements on residential streets between the hours of 9:01 p.m. through 7:59 a.m. with the Tibbs Road corridor.
“For streets in commercial and industrial districts (Tony Ingle Parkway, Abutment Road, Glenwood Avenue) no work shall be completed between the hours of 7:01 a.m. through 7:59 a.m.,” city documents indicate. “I.e., no commercial districts streets during the AM rush.”
The documents also note that no work shall take place between 4:59 p.m. through 6 p.m. on Tony Ingle Parkway, while no work shall take place between 7:01 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Glenwood Avenue.
“The contractor shall keep at least one travel lane open in each direction of travel at all times,” city documents read. “Liquidated damages for failure to observe time of work restrictions shall be assessed to the contractor at the rate of $200 per hour.”
City documents note that for the Glenwood Avenue improvements, a portion of the roadway that was previously included in a 2022 Local Maintenance Improvement Grant list will be excluded.
“Road mileage is subject to change and depends upon the availability of funding,” the city’s contract documents note. “The prices submitted shall include all labor, materials, removal, overhead, profit, insurance, etc., to cover the finished work of the several kinds called for.”
If the project is not completed by Aug. 15, city documents indicate the contractor will pay $300 per day for each day of work performed afterward.
Another stipulation indicates that if the contractor chosen for the project fails to cover milled surfaces within a period of 14 days, said contract will be assessed a penalty of $200 per day “left exposed.”
Contract times, however, can be adjusted via change orders.
“The contract time will be extended in an amount equal to time lost due to delays beyond the control of the contractor,” the documents indicate. “Such delays shall include, but not be restricted to, acts or neglect by any separate contractor employed by (the city), fires, floods, labor disputes, epidemics, abnormal weather conditions or acts of God.”
Per Georgia Department of Transportation documents, the city of Dalton was lined up for $406,129.89 in Local Maintenance Improvement Grant funding in 2023. The 2024 formula amount is listed at $436,838.02.
The required match for the grant funding, according to GDOT, is 30%.