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for it,” he explained.
For this reason, in the years following
the city’s fiscal crisis in 2009 and 2010,
streets went unpaved, he said. Due to
budgetary constraints, the same thing
happened last year, Garrison said.
“We didn’t have the money to put up
for it,” the DPW superintendent said.
“Therefore, we didn’t do any paving. It
wasn’t overlooked.”
Paving the city will be expensive, he
said, estimating a cost of approximately
$10 million over the next five years. “Most
(local) municipalities budget about $1
million for paving,” Garrison said, per
year. “They don’t have sewer under the
roads, they don’t have water under the
roads,” he remarked.
There may be opportunities to fund the
paving project through additional sources
such as the Community Development
Block Grant (CDBG) program, said city
Councilman Jonathan Jacobson. “At
least we know every year something is
going to get done,” said Jacobson, who
has championed a plan to fix city streets
since 2015.
Careful planning will be required to
coordinate the paving with state-mandated
projects, including the separation of
the city’s storm and sewer lines, City
Manager Michael Ciaravino said. The city
is also in the process of using a camera
truck to map the condition of city sewer
lines. “We are required to camera all of
our lines as part of a mandate over the
next four years,” Ciaravino said.
The city is also in the middle of making
its crosswalks Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA) complaint. Add to this, the
city must deal with “unannounced,
unscheduled infrastructure that blows
up,” the Ciaravino said.
“We can fix it right and do it once,”
Garrison said Tuesday. “If we want to
make it look pretty, we can pave it now,
then dig it up and do it again later,” an
option that would cost more money in
the long-term, he said. The city DPW will
provide more detailed information on the
plan sometime in June or July, Garrison
said.
Streets scheduled to be paved this year
have already had infrastructure work
completed below, he said. Streets in the
Washington Heights neighborhood are
scheduled to be paved in 2019.
Montgomery Street is one of the several streets scheduled to be paved by the City of
Newburgh DPW later this year.
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