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Nevada Daily Mail: Local News: APAC to visit Nevada Thursday to ...

The asphalt mix used for the 2011 street construction program is the same mix that was used for paving on U.S. Highways 71 and 54, City Manager JD Kehrman told the city council during Monday's special council meeting.

Kehrman told the council that in response to concerns raised by the city's infrastructure committee about the appearance of the asphalt, Roger Beach talked to APAC about the issue.

Beach told the council that while there are couple of places that need to be repaired, APAC representatives said the asphalt used in the paving was BP-2 mix, which uses larger rocks and is more durable. This mix can only be used in asphalt that is more than two inches thick, which is the minimum thickness laid in Nevada this year. The larger rock makes the surface more durable.

For thinner overlays, they use a BP-2 mix, which uses smaller rocks and is more easily damaged by heavy traffic.

Kehrman told the council that APAC will be in town on Thursday to address any problems, and a representative will be at the September infrastructure board meeting to talk about the surfacing material.

In other business the council:

* Held a public hearing and voted 5-0 to set the city's 2011 property tax levy at 67.78 cents per $100 assessed valuation for the city's general fund and at 20 cents per $100 assessed valuation for the library fund. These rates were calculated by the Missouri State Auditor. These are the same rates used in 2010.

* Voted 5-0 to roll back the city's 17 cent per $100 valuation park property tax to zero due to the passage of the city's 1/2 cent parks sales tax.

* Voted 5-0 to pass on first reading a special ordinance approving an agreement with the Missouri Department of Transportation to allow MoDOT to temporarily to close streets to traffic while installing new ADA compliant ramps on U.S. Highway 54 from Tower St. to Osage Boulevard and north on Osage to near Hickory Street. This project is paid for by MoDOT and does not cost the city anything.

* Voted 5-0 to accept the $7,245.36 bid from Cummins Central Power LLC for a 7,000 watt generator for the city's sewer camera van. The previous generator, which was not large enough to run the camera, computers and air conditioner needed to keep the equipment cool, failed and needs to be replaced. The camera is used to inspect the city's sewers for problems.

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