The Public Works Department is proposing to spend $12.4 million in the next five years to repair and rebuild about one-third of the total paved area it maintains.
But the ambitious rehabilitation program, which officials say will help the city stay ahead of its street maintenance needs, depends on the voters approving a $6 million bond proposal in November.
“We’ve got so many streets out there that need this work, we need to bring them up to speed so we can catch up,” said Tom Talsma, Geneva’s public works director. “Spending this money now will allow our future dollars to go farther.”
The spending plan, which the city council’s Transportation Committee endorsed last week, calls for combining the referendum money with the city’s other revenue sources, such as motor fuel, income, utility and vehicle sticker taxes.
About $2 million more than the city’s current street expenses would be spent in each of the plan’s first three years to rehabilitate portions of 66 local and residential streets, if the proposal passes.
Two of the biggest local projects will come in the plan’s fourth year, in the 1998-99 fiscal year, when the city spends $921,500 to reconstruct Kaneville Road between State Street and Randall Road, and Eastside Drive between State and Division Streets.
The spending plan also includes contributing in the 1995-96 fiscal year about $858,000 to county and state-sponsored improvements on such major arterials as Kirk Road, Fabyan Parkway at Western Avenue, and State Street (Illinois Highway 38) between 1st and 4th Streets.
The plan calls for spending $300,000 in 1999-2000 to rebuild 3rd Street between Hamilton Street and Batavia Avenue.
