Cemetery to Spend $90K to Fix Roads
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
“If we don’t start fixing them, we’re going to have some major problems,” sexton Hal Heagy reported. “They’re not put in quite as well as the other roads. The two I did are, but the other ones aren’t.”
He said they were looking at fixing the roads by sealcoating the asphalt roads, filling in cracks and “doing some other stuff.”
He said they’re steering away from the old black asphalt that roads have been typically coated with.
“It’s not outlawed in Indiana yet, but they think it might be eventually because it’s a cancerous product, they believe, but there are other options,” Heagy stated, though some of the old section of the cemetery may still get that asphalt.
The cemetery will buy the material for the roads when the City of Warsaw Street Department buys its material so that money can be saved. “The more you do, the less per square foot it is,” Heagy said.
In repairing the roads this year, he said the new section – the north/south roads – will be done first. If money allows it, the east/west roads will be addressed. The old section of the cemetery, which is past the office and near the lake, won’t be addressed until next year, depending on funds.
“That’s the big expense out of (the Permanent fund) this year, repairing roads,” Heagy said.
In other business, Heagy reported:
• The public restrooms at the cemetery were upgraded. They received new light fixtures and were painted.
• Warsaw Fiber finally got their problems solved with the installation of the line at the cemetery.
“They got their problem solved. I do have it. It’s up running. It’s not functional yet if that makes sense,” he said. “They had a little issue back when they ran it. I needed one fiber length, they ran me 144, so they changed the cables, and they have all the boxes up ready to go.”
He said he’s supposed to get a call next week, the computers then will be switched over, and the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety will be asked to approve the three-month contract for the phones.
• The city is going to a new pay system which will be handled in-house. Every city employee will have to have direct deposit.
• The back gate of the cemetery, which is very small and where Oakwood and the city parks department share property, is being widened. Dirt is being stockpiled back there but there isn’t enough room to get dump trucks through. The gate will be 16 feet wide, and poles were set Thursday.
He said he cut a new road back there, which will be 15 feet wide.
• The new lighting in the chapel is completed. The bulbs are LED and should save money.
• The Exmark mower he had been looking at was purchased. It is a full-body suspension mower. He said it’s similar to the one he purchased last year, and he traded in a Toro for this one.
For purchasing next year, he said he was looking to trade in the cemetery’s track hoe. “It’s time to do that since there’s value to it to look at another one,” he said, mentioning that a new one might be one size larger.
In May, the cemetery will purchase a new dump truck and pickup truck.[[In-content Ad]]
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“If we don’t start fixing them, we’re going to have some major problems,” sexton Hal Heagy reported. “They’re not put in quite as well as the other roads. The two I did are, but the other ones aren’t.”
He said they were looking at fixing the roads by sealcoating the asphalt roads, filling in cracks and “doing some other stuff.”
He said they’re steering away from the old black asphalt that roads have been typically coated with.
“It’s not outlawed in Indiana yet, but they think it might be eventually because it’s a cancerous product, they believe, but there are other options,” Heagy stated, though some of the old section of the cemetery may still get that asphalt.
The cemetery will buy the material for the roads when the City of Warsaw Street Department buys its material so that money can be saved. “The more you do, the less per square foot it is,” Heagy said.
In repairing the roads this year, he said the new section – the north/south roads – will be done first. If money allows it, the east/west roads will be addressed. The old section of the cemetery, which is past the office and near the lake, won’t be addressed until next year, depending on funds.
“That’s the big expense out of (the Permanent fund) this year, repairing roads,” Heagy said.
In other business, Heagy reported:
• The public restrooms at the cemetery were upgraded. They received new light fixtures and were painted.
• Warsaw Fiber finally got their problems solved with the installation of the line at the cemetery.
“They got their problem solved. I do have it. It’s up running. It’s not functional yet if that makes sense,” he said. “They had a little issue back when they ran it. I needed one fiber length, they ran me 144, so they changed the cables, and they have all the boxes up ready to go.”
He said he’s supposed to get a call next week, the computers then will be switched over, and the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety will be asked to approve the three-month contract for the phones.
• The city is going to a new pay system which will be handled in-house. Every city employee will have to have direct deposit.
• The back gate of the cemetery, which is very small and where Oakwood and the city parks department share property, is being widened. Dirt is being stockpiled back there but there isn’t enough room to get dump trucks through. The gate will be 16 feet wide, and poles were set Thursday.
He said he cut a new road back there, which will be 15 feet wide.
• The new lighting in the chapel is completed. The bulbs are LED and should save money.
• The Exmark mower he had been looking at was purchased. It is a full-body suspension mower. He said it’s similar to the one he purchased last year, and he traded in a Toro for this one.
For purchasing next year, he said he was looking to trade in the cemetery’s track hoe. “It’s time to do that since there’s value to it to look at another one,” he said, mentioning that a new one might be one size larger.
In May, the cemetery will purchase a new dump truck and pickup truck.[[In-content Ad]]
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