The Danville City Council Public Works Committee has passed a handful of items on to the next full council meeting. One has to do with residents who refuse to put their toters away once garbage has been collected. Committee Chairman Michael Puhr says this has been a problem since the free toters were distributed to residents about 25 years ago. He says some residents just leave the toters by the road all the time, and throw in the garbage whenever they have some. But the toters are supposed to be stored in back or along the sides of the house, or in a garage if available. This updated way, warnings, and then fines, would be left right at the address of the violator, such as on the front door or on the toter.
AUDIO: Some people just do not think that they need to take their toter and put it back by their house. They don’t realize you put it out the day before, and take it back the day of pickup; that’s just the way you do the toters. We have the fines in place already where you can actually do it, this just puts a little more teeth in it.
Meanwhile, as the city’s portion of work continues around Carle Health’s new Carle at the Riverfront project along Logan, a plan has been forwarded to appropriate state Motor Fuel Tax funds to reconstruct Madison Street, from Chandler to Robinson. City Engineer Sam Cole says look for things to get rolling this coming spring.
AUDIO: We are going to open bids on February 2nd, we expect construction to start early 2022, and go probably through mid-summer, late summer, something like that. We’re working on design of the streets around the Carle facility. This is kind of the first piece that we need to get done. It’s really the road where the traffic that used to take Logan Avenue is going to be rerouted to.
Also, the Public Works Committee has approved contracts for the demolition of the old Danville Township building, at 101 West North Street next to the Masonic Temple. It involves an asbestos abatement contract with Midwest Services, and a demolition contract with Owens Excavating. City Public Works Director Carl Carpenter says it all should be done by late December. Then, of course, the question is what will go in that lot that the city now owns. Parking for the Masonic Temple has been mentioned.
AUDIO: The $58,500 fee is what Owens is charging to tear the building down, and the trucking of all the debris to the landfill. We will still have to pay for the dump fees themselves. That’s not included in the demolition fee.
The next full Danville City Council meeting is this coming Tuesday evening, November 16th.
