Street resurfacing

[sfc_oliver]

   Before I stopped working, the company I was General manager of did a lot of work for the city. The way I understood it was that our Bid had to be the lowest but still had to be within 10% of what the cities estimate for the job was. Of course their estimate was never revealed to the bidders.

[Toymaker]

Do they still use the formula that awards the contract to do road work to the lowest bidder, which is accomplished by using a cheaper material of inferior quality? And naturally, since it is of inferior quality, the problem just recycles itself that much faster. I read about this years ago, and it was described being done throughout the country. Please tell me they have gotten smarter since then.

STEEL BUILT AMERICA!

[john r. swierz]

      The list is put together by the council member with the assistence of the Public Works Dept.

[ForumManager]

John,
Thanks for the info - I will wait until 2 weeks has passed.
Who decides what streets need to be paved?
There are MANY streets in Youngstown that need it much more than our street, well before it was scraped.

[john r. swierz]

   By contract, the company has 2 weeks from the the time that they grind it till they must repave it

[iwasthere]

swierz next time you give wrong area code, OFF WITH YOUR HEAD.

[ForumManager]

Thanks
What is a reasonable timeframe between scraping and paving?

[john r. swierz]

      Sorry about the error on the area code, as you well know that would be 330 not 220.

[john r. swierz]

       That would be the Public Works Department. The number is 220 7428800,  the program is at the direction of Charles Shasho, be you could ask for Colten.

[ForumManager]

Does anyone know which  department  handles street resurfacing?
They scraped our street and left it. It has been over a week.
The street didn't seem to be in need of paving and now it is terrible to drive on and of course the "no parking   by order of the police: signs are still up