Perry approves resurfacing program

At Tuesday’s Perry City Council meeting, council approved the 2017 local maintenance and improvement grant (LMIG) program. The budget for the program is $191,248.95 with a 30 percent match. City Engineer Chad McMurrian presented council with a list that prioritized certain streets to be worked on. Those streets included Park Avenue, Forest Avenue, King Circle, St. Patricks Drive and Iffie Road.

After composing the prioritized list, McMurrian said his only concern was St. Patricks Drive needing more work done than just resurfacing. He said there are a lot of cracks in the road along with weeds and grass breaking through. To bring it to a high quality of a collector street would cost approximately $211,400. McMurrian said the project can qualify under the LMIG program, but to simply repave it would cost $71,455. Mayor Jimmy Faircloth said it is needed to bring the road up to a better quality because Tractor Supply is building a location there located on St. Patricks Drive. Council agreed and approved to move forward.

In other business, council approved the recommendation from the planning commission to deny of an ordinance de-annexing 23.98 acres from the city of Perry to Houston County. At the previous council meeting held earlier this month, a public hearing was held for the request submitted by Leighton Kersey in the Stonebridge subdivision. Several residents attended the public hearing with concerns of Kerseys plans of developing the area for agriculture use.

Council also made appointments to the Perry Planning Commission and Perry Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Authority. Councilman Riley Hunt appointed Brince Coody to the commission and Councilman Robert Jones appointed Megan Brent to the authority.

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