STE. GENEVIEVE – Ste. Genevieve City Administrator Happy Welch will update members of the board of aldermen on the city’s street project when it meets tonight in regular session.
In his written report prepared for this evenings’s meeting Welch said: “Asphalt work will continue this week into next week, finishing up around the school with all the streets but 9th Street. For 9th Street curb installation will continue with that wrapping up the first week in August.”
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Welch said the concrete work on Pointe Basse has been “less than satisfactory and the contractor has been notified of the time schedule that they must meet or face liquidated damages.”
There are three requests for street closures on the agenda:
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War wants to close Third Street from the alley by the Anvil Restaurant to the southside of the corner of Merchant and Third Street from 10 am to 12 noon on Saturday, August 23, the National Park Service wants to close Market Street from Second Street to South Main Street from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for the fifth birthday of the Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park and the organizers of the Jour de Fete want to close Main Street from Washington to the south end of the South Gabouri Creek Bridge, Second Street from Merchant to Market Streets, South Gabouri Street from Second to Front Street, Jefferson from Main Street to Valle Street, Merchant from Third to Front Street, Market from Third to Front Street from 1 p.m. Friday, August 8th to 7 p.m. Sunday, August 10th.
There is one measure on the agenda: It adds a stop sign to westbound Maple, southbound Virginia, and a No Left Turn sign for eastbound Maple.
The meeting will be shown live on SteGenTV Channel 991 on the Spectrum cable system and on the SteGenTV You Tube Channel.