BOYLE – The Village of Boyle is moving ahead with two road repair projects as part of its 2025 capital budget which will cost the municipality just over half-a-million.
Councillors voted to approve two bids, selected by village CAO Warren Griffin and the public works superintendent, during the April 2 meeting.
The first project is the micro surfacing — a type of road maintenance that puts down a sacrificial layer of road asphalt to protect the core — of Clintberg Avenue, which was awarded for $77,380 to a company from Acheson. Council had budgeted $150,000 for the project, so councillors were happy with the results.
The project is set to start in Lake June, early July, depending on weather and the company’s schedule.
“If you’re a typical municipality in an election year, you go in at the lowest one and then spend that same amount on something else and make it look like you’re doing more, but I don[t think that’s what this council is about,” said Mayor Colin Derko.
“We’ve always talked about not doing things two or three times. Getting it done right is not fluffy for our budget, but its right for our budget and its right for spending tax dollars responsibly.”
While both bids came in below budget, they weren’t automatically the cheapest options. On the second bid, for road repair and renewal, administration recommended the most expensive option, which still came in below the $560,000 budget.
“This is a well-established, nearly 30-year-old company,” said Griffin. The $436,000 bid includes $157,000 for base repairs, as well as another $230,000 for mobilization. Notices will go out on June 2, with the site being mobilized on June 9. Face repair will take seven to 10 days, and Griffin said the company hopes to be done by June 25.
“The scheduling is very good. Yeah Gord Bamford is going on, but this is all on the hill," he said. "This is not only a major residential access for several homes, it’s also got businesses and even our public works. There’s some heavy traffic on that road.”
