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Oswego to chip in on Cedar Glen, Windcrest streets : News : Oswego Ledger-Sentinel : Hometown Newspaper for Oswego and Montgomery, IllinoisOswego to chip in on Cedar Glen, Windcrest streets
| As resurfacing begins, board approves MFT funds to pay for extra asphalt
| by John Etheredge
| 10/18/2012
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The Village of Oswego will spend some of its state reimbursed Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) funds to improve streets in the Cedar Glen and Windcrest subdivisions east of Ill. Route 25.
Contractors for the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District were scheduled to begin resurfacing streets in the two subdivisions this week.
The contractors have dug up the streets in the two subdivisions over the past year as they installed sanitary sewer lines. As part of the $1.8 million project, Fox Metro is now paying contractors to resurface the streets.
On Tuesday evening, the village board agreed to spend $51,000 in MFT funds to help make sure the newly resurfaced streets last a bit longer.
In a memo to the board, Jerry Weaver, the village's director of public works, noted that contractors for Fox Metro recently ground off the old layer of asphalt on the streets in the two subdivisions.
However, Weaver said the contractors soon found "there was very little asphalt to grind off" and "most of the roads were only one and one-half inches thick."
Weaver noted the asphalt base on the streets is "good and stiff" but an additional three-quarter inch layer of asphalt called a "leveling binder" needs to be applied to the streets before the final layer of asphalt is put down.
Weaver placed the approximate cost for the leveling binder at $51,000 and recommended the village use funds now in its MFT account to pay for the binder.
He also noted that Geneva Construction, the firm that recently completed the village's annual MFT street maintenance program, has been hired by Fox Metro to resurface the streets in Cedar Glen and Windcrest.
"Geneva (Construction) and myself feel if we don't place the additional leveling binder on the roads then the roads will not last," he said.
Weaver concluded, "We have the funds to do this additional work and it will be better for the roadways and make them last much longer."
OK liquor license for
'Crazy Bull Grill & Saloon'
In other business Tuesday evening, board members voted 5-1 to award a Class A liquor license to Crazy Bull Grill & Saloon at 4092 Ill. Route 71.
In a memo to the board, Police Chief Dwight Baird noted the owners of the business have passed a required police background check necessary to receive the license.
Under a Class A license, businesses are allowed to sell all types of alcoholic beverages in packages or by the drink for consumption on their premises, according to village code.
Board member Tony Giles cast the lone negative ballot on the motion.
Giles, a teacher at Oswego East High School, told his board colleagues the close proximity of the restaurant and bar to Oswego High School and the East View Kindergarten Center on Route 71 is a concern for him and other school district staff members.
Numerous restaurants and banquet facilities have operated out of the building at 4092 Route 71 over the past three decades.
The board also voted to decrease the number of Class F and Class C liquor licenses, respectively. The Class F liquor license-which allows for the sale of packaged alcoholic beverages-had been held by BP Orchard Petroleum for a now closed gas station and convenience store at the northeast corner of Orchard Road and U.S. Route 34.
The Class C liquor license, which was for the sale of alcoholic beverages at restaurant tables, had been held by Vito and Nick's at 342 Orchard Road. Vito and Nick's has also closed.
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