Resurfacing of portions of Butler Street, Robinsonville Road, Sardine Road and Foshee Road should begin late August or early September following an agreement signed Monday between the Escambia County Commission and the Alabama Department of Transportation.
The cost of resurfacing the 17.224 miles will be about $2.4 million with the county responsible for about $500,000.
Assistant County Engineer Brad Solomon told the commissioners Mobile Asphalt submitted the low bid on the project.
According to the agreement the resurfacing of Butler Street (County Road 45) from Robinsonville Road (County Road 27) to the Monroe County line and Robinsonville and Sardine Roads (County Road 27) from Butler Street to Foshee Road (County Road 18). The resurfacing also include Foshee Road from Sardine Road.
In other business Monday, the commission agreed to participate in a class action lawsuit originally filed in the state of Utah, concerning the federal government's Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
Under the PILT program, the federal government reimburses local governments on what that federally-owned land would have been taxed. In Escambia County it involves federal lands in the Conecuh National Forest.
County Clerk-Administrator Tony Sanks said the PILT payments from the federal government were short from 2015 to 2017.
Sanks told the commission it would not have to pay anything to join the class action suit, but if successful the county could receive about $40,000 or $50,000.
The commission also voted to post Mockingbird Lane, Maplewood Drive and Hummingbird Lane at 15 mph. Commissioner David Quarker said those roads were recently resurfaced and citizens along those roads requested the speed limit postings.
