City officials on Tuesday opened bids for a project using state matching funds through a program meant to improve and maintain local roads.
Columbus Board of Public Works and Safety members opened bids for a project using $1 million in Community Crossing Matching Grant (CCMG) funds.
INDOT announced recipients of the grant in December, with the city receiving the maximum amount.
The CCMG program is intended to advance community infrastructure projects, strengthen local transportation networks and improve Indiana’s roads and bridges.
To qualify, municipalities are required to provide matching local funds, depending on the size of a community. For those with populations greater than 50,000 people such as Columbus, local governments are required to match whatever amount of funding received, meaning the project will cost up to $2 million.
The city received three bids on the project:
- Milestone Contractors: $1,356,050
- Dave O’Mara Contractor: $1,414,000
- All Star Paving: $1,444,525
City Engineer Andrew Beckort said the project using the funds will involve cold-in-place recycling on County Road 450S from I-65 all the way to County Road 50W in Walesboro. It will also see 4-inch mill and overlay work to Marr Road behind Target, from Jolinda Drive to 25th Street.
Cold-in-place recycling is where existing asphalt pavement is reused on site without heating it to create a new road base or surface layer.
