Tax dollars at work: Greeley keeps moving on road, sidewalk improvements
By Trenton Sperry
The city’s public works department has identified a number of areas where it plans to resurface roads and completely replace sidewalks by November thanks to voters’ continuance of the Keep Greeley Moving tax.
On Tuesday, Director Paul Trombino listed the projects and their cost estimates as follows:
39 stretches of road for asphalt overlay: $12.5 million
35 stretches of road for slurry and chip seal: $589,000
45 stretches of road for surface rejuvenation: $359,000
38 stretches of road for crack fill: $93,000
24 stretches of road for a seal coat: $964,000
9 sidewalk replacements: $4.35 million
Trombino also said that any portion of roadway slated for asphalt overlay also will have its curbs and gutters repaired and sidewalks replaced.
“Thank you to the voters who extended this,” said Ward II Councilwoman Deb DeBoutez, who represents the central and southeast part of the city. “A lot of these improvements are in my ward, which is an older part of town.”
DeBoutez and Mayor John Gates praised city staff’s efforts to inform residents about what the tax dollars go toward, and they said that transparency is paramount going forward.
“If you don’t clearly delineate what you’re doing, you’ll never get this issue renewed,” Gates said, “and this is our seventh year of this. So, city staff have done a great job telling people about what we’ve done and plan to do.”