2005 Barrington Hills Roads & Bridges Update

Memo to Residents

Notes From The Field

November 11, 2005 Road Program Over

2005 Project Construction operations are complete for this year's road program. The contractor has begun work on the punchlist in order to present a year end final status of items in the project. If you know of work items that remain to be completed, please contact Dan Strahan dstrahan@gha-engineers.com  at the Village Engineer's office at 847-478-9700.

Miscellaneous Drainage Package  Construction operations have been completed for the 2005 , with work beginning on final restoration items.

September 30, 2005 Roads and Bridges enters the Project Close Out Stage

2004 Project Completion
Plum Tree Road - The Village Engineer met with the contractor, who will be providing the Village with a price for completion of the punch list items on Plum Tree Road. The remaining work includes touching up the landscaping at various locations, and replacement of the surface at the Plum Tree Road/ Ridge Road intersection. The initial work is the patching at this intersection, but detail examination of the surface revealed several areas throughout the intersection where the bituminous material was bleeding up through the aggregate. Additional analysis is pending.

2005 Project Completion
Meadow Hill Road - The curb repair is complete. The Village Engineer will be coordinating a meeting with the aborists and affected property owners to discuss placement of trees and shrubs. After the finalizing the scope of work, the landscaping and final surface will be completed.

Cuba Road - Since construction is complete, post-construction analyst of site conditions are underway with specialized structural consultants.

Chapel and Healy Road - There are a few areas where the topsoil has been rutted by cars driving off of the pavement, which remain and item in final landscape restoration.

2005 Drainage Project - IDOT has approved the plans and specs, and the bid package has been advertised and is available for bid. The bid opening will be 2:00 on Wednesday, October 12 at the Village Hall.

September 9, 2005 Meadow Hill Road - The road will be opened at the close of construction today.

Work will continue for one to two more weeks, including completion of the geoweb, landscaping, and final finish work on the roadway surface. The contractor will provide flaggers during the remaining construction activities which at times limit the use of the roadway to one lane.

Chapel, Healy, Cuba - Construction is substantially completed. Final surface and landscaping is the remaining work to be completed. The contractor will place additional stone on the gravel driveways the week of September 12th.

September 2, 2005 Meadow Hill Road- Road closure will be extended one week (through September 9, 2005), for protection of workers as construction operations are completed. Curbs, aggregate base, and bituminous base course were completed in the last week of August. Remaining work includes installation of the geoweb (scheduled for Tuesday, September 6), final surface, and landscape restoration activities. Drivers are advised to observe construction signs and the posted information.

Cuba Road- Topsoil, seed and blanket application began this week and will continue next week. Placement of the final surface is in progress and completing final grading on Cuba Road on Friday, Sept. 2. Please note that the stone shoulder currently on the road will be covered with topsoil after placement of the surface.

Chapel Road- The final surface was completed on Chapel Road with the placement of 1043 tons of Superpave N50 surface course. Remaining work includes landscape restoration. Also, additional traffic control signs will be installed after location of existing underground utilities.

Healy- Final surface has been completed; final landscaping will be completed next week.

Honeycutt Road- At the August meeting the Village Board elected to defer the resurfacing work on Honeycutt Road, but to proceed with jetting of the existing storm sewers. The schedule of the jetting of the storm sewers will occur in the coming weeks.

August 19, 2005 Meadow Hill Road- Curb placement is scheduled for Monday, August 22. After the curb has cured, the contractor will begin placement of the stone and bituminous base course and rough grading of the embankment. It is anticipated that the road will remain closed until Friday, September 2.

Cuba Road- Placement of the stone shoulder will take place on Tuesday August 23rd. Final surface and landscaping follows these activities, though the work has not yet been scheduled by the contractor.

Chapel, Healy Road- Surface on Chapel and binder on Healy are planned to take place the week of August 22, but have not yet been scheduled by the contractor.

August 15, 2005 Meadow Hill Road- Installation of the storm sewer was completed today. Excavation of the roadway continued today and will be completed Tuesday and Wednesday. Placement of the curb is anticipated on Thursday 8/18. Placement of the base course and rough grading will be completed early in the week of 8/22.

The road remains closed as indicated by the signs; drivers are advised to plan their routes accordingly.

Cuba Road- Ditch grading began today and will continue Tuesday and Wednesday. Placement of shoulder is anticipated late this week, with final surface placement week of 8/22.

Chapel Road/ Healy Road- The contractor has completed the patching on Healy Road, and plans to place binder on Healy and surface on Chapel week of 8/22 (No firm scheduling information yet).

The contractor anticipates completing the project by the contract completion date of 9/8/05.

July 29, 2005 Underground construction on Meadow Hill will begin Tuesday, August 2. Meadow Hill will be closed during construction. The projected date of the closure is until September 2, 2005, but every reasonable effort is being made for an earlier completion date.

Initial signage is in place. Please observe the detour signs and caution signs in the work area.

On other projects the contractor will be working to complete edge patching on Cuba Road and binder course will be placed on Chapel Road. The placement of the binder course will take up most of the first week in August.

July 22, 2005 Meadow Hill Road Closed for Construction. Planned for Tuesday August 2, 2005 Meadow Hill will be closed at its southern most end at County Line Road. Signage will be posted in advance of construction and the announced duration is for one month. The contractor has planned to complete the construction by the last week in August.

The other road work this year on Cuba (between Merri-Oaks and Plum Tree Road) Chapel, Healy and Honnycutt Roads will remain open to through traffic throughout construction.

July 18, 2005 Storm sewer on Cuba Road is complete. The contractor has begun sawcutting and pavement removal/shoulder excavation on Cuba Road, which will continue the rest of the week. After edge patching is completed, the binder (first layer of asphalt) will be placed, followed by rough grading operations and then placement of the surface course. Site restoration and final landscaping is weather dependent especially this season.

During the first week in August, the contractor anticipates beginning work on Meadow Hill Road. Surveyors from the office of the Village Engineer will mark the limits of construction prior to the start of any work. Signage announcing the road closure will be up prior to the road being closed.

Initial operations will be storm sewer construction, followed by earth excavation and tree removal, then placement of gutter section, concluding with the paving.

As a reminder for residents, the stakes with orange flagging marking the edge of the roadway are three-foot offset stakes: the actual edge of pavement will be located three feet from the stake.

July 5, 2005 Installation of a storm sewer continues this week on Cuba Road.

Site visits have occurred with structural engineers as well as utility representatives. The underground work is likely to be completed by the week of July 11th. The contractor plans in that same week pavement removal and shoulder excavation operations on Cuba Road.

Caution is advised through out the construction zone.

MEMO: Roads and Bridges Monthly Report

DATE: May 23, 2005

FROM: Julie McKevitt, Chairman

SUBJECT: 2005 Road Program

The bid opening occurred on May 19, 2005, and the Village had five qualified bidders respond.
The Engineers estimate was $950,653.

The apparent low bidder was Chicagoland Paving at $820,811.25

The next to low bidders were:

Arrow Road Construction	$872,572.00
J.A. Johnson Paving	$968,361.45
Plote Construction	$971,000.00
Curran Contracting	$1,173,419.95

Roads proposed for the 2005 Road Program are:

Partial Reconstruction:

• Meadow Hill Rd. from County Line Rd. North 650 Cuba Rd. from Merri-Oaks Rd. North to Plum Tree Rd.

Patch and Overlay:

• Chapel Rd. ¨C from Haeger's Bend East to Church Rd.
• Haeger's Bend Rd. from Chapel Rd. North to Village limits Healy Rd. from Penny Rd. South to the end
• Honeycutt Rd. from Hills & Dales Rd. South to end.

Misc. Improvements:

• Spring Creek/Haeger's Bend Island median improvements

The Roads & Bridges Committee is reviewing the bid packages, and will require a special Board meeting to award the contract to the successful low bidder on Friday June 17, 2005.

Bid Summary - Chicagoland Paving

Road Name	Chicagoland Bid- Per Road	$/LF
Meadow Hill Road	$170,578.25	$282.43
Cuba Road	$299,284.00	$ 86.75
Chapel Road	$131,747.00	$ 25.34
Haeger's Bend Road	$100,142.00	$ 42.25
Healy Road	$ 82,042.50	$ 28.76
Honeycutt Road	$ 34,517.00	$ 26.03
SpCrk/Haeger's Bend Island	$820,811.25	$ 50.59

2005 Drainage Program:

• Caesar Rd. drainage issues: Gewalt Hamilton has completed preliminary field work to examine the possibility of improving the drainage.
• Rock Ridge Rd. North end experiencing wash outs Other nominal drainage work will be out to bid towards the end of the Summer.

OTHER ITEMS

We met with Tom Gooch Cuba Township Highway Superintendent to explore ways our two road urisdictions can work together on maintenance, patching and plowing similar to the program with Algonquin Township on River Rd.

There may be an opportunity to work together on Cuba Rd. We will explore this further and present our findings at the special June Board meeting.

2004 Road Program

Caesar Rd. asphalt driveway patching to be completed in June Plum Tree Rd. Callaghan Paving is working on punch list items, some of which includes work at Kresmery Lane where residents are bottoming out due to the differences in slopes of the private driveway to the roadway. Some of this work though will have to be bid out separately for 2005 work.

2004 Barrington Hills Roads & Bridges Update
2003 Barrington Hills Roads & Bridges Update