FENTON, Michigan — One of the city’s rocky roads is set to get resurfaced, but drivers are going to have to wait a few years.
At its Jan. 11 meeting, Fenton City Council unanimously approved to put fourth 20 percent funding on a $982,873 North Leroy Street resurfacing project for the 2012 fiscal year.
The city received a grant that will fund 80 percent, or $786,296, of the project from the Genesee County Metropolitan Alliance Technical Advisory Committee, city manager Lynn Markland said. The city will be held accountable for an expected cost of $196,575.
Markland said the money to fund the project will either come out of the street fund or be appropriated from the general fund.
The project is expected to be a mill and overlay, said Les Bland, department of public works director. Mill and overlays generally consist of removing some of the road surface and mixing asphalt back into the original grade.
Bland said workers will likely repair one or two lanes at a time on the five-lane road to keep it opened to through traffic. North Leroy Street will be repaired from when it begins near Main Street to the city limits.