Parkman Finalizes 2025 Road Improvement Plan
Orange barrel season is expected to be expensive for Parkman Township this year.
Orange barrel season is expected to be expensive for Parkman Township this year.
Trustee Lance Portman presented projected costs April 1 for a number of sections of roads, most of which will be candidates for chip and seal, not asphalt.
The only contractor who responded to his call and toured township roads was Suit-kote Corp., out of Meadville, Pa., he said.
“The price kinda shocked me,” he told trustees.
Many roads, especially part of Nash Road, deteriorated through the winter. Part of Nash was impassable due to deep potholes, Portman said at the Feb. 4 meeting.
Trustees agreed to concentrate the township’s resources on road improvement this year.
Last Tuesday, trustees voted to fund the following projects:
- Short Hosmer Road for $67,300;
- Short Shedd Road maintenance coat for $20,800;
- Maintenance coat on Nash between Newcombe and Madison roads for $27,200;
- Maintenance coat for Swine Creek Road from the township line to the county line for $18,900;
- Maintenance coat for Payne Road between state Route 88 to the county line for $13,800;
- Rutland Road from Parkman Nelson Road to the county line for $12,200;
- Patch Road maintenance coat from Newcombe Road to Troy Township line for $30,700;
- Crack fill repair on various roads for $13,500.
The area most severely damaged on Nash would be repaired with two layers of asphalt, Portland said.
The total cost for all the projects is about $205,000, which leaves about $20,000 left in the road budget, said Trustee Joyce Peters.
“I don’t want to put us right at the limit,” Portman said, adding that preparing Nash for the asphalt layers may use some of that $20,000.
Nash gets heavy use near the auction barn and the surface there broke up due to deep frost through the winter, Portman said.
Trustees voted to accept the plan.
In other business, trustees agreed to resurface the tennis and basketball courts at Overlook Park and convert the tennis court into two pickleball courts; drag the baseball fields once a week to avoid weed control chemicals; and place the township’s second automated external defibrillator at the road department garage rather than install it at the park for fear of vandalism or theft. An AED is a portable device used in the case of sudden cardiac arrest.
