The Town of Slave Lake’s road re-hab program kicks in again this year. Two streets are slated to receive a facelift during the paving season – a portion of 10th Ave. S.E. and 4th St. N.W.
As is the normal procedure, the cost of the project is split three ways – between the province, the town and the property owners on the affected streets. Council heard the details at its May 20 meeting and voted to go ahead.
The work will go ahead, council heard, unless the property owners petition it down, which has happened in other situations.
The 10th Ave. S.E. project is merely a pavement overlay – nothing like the lengthy and expensive bottom-to-top rebuilding that was done on 12 St. S.E. last year, the town’s director of operations Roger Borchert told council. The section of 10th Ave from 6th St. to 9th St. actually should have been re-paved in 2004 after the waterline was replaced, so it’s overdue, he said.
The total cost is projected to be $212,000, with $69,000 of that assigned to 27 property owners. The cost per property ranges from $1,685 to $3,103. That’s if they pay it all at once. If they choose to pay it off over time, the town has a formula worked out has the annual charges ranging from $196 to $362.
The 4th St. project is a bigger one, budgeted at $1.5 million, but thanks to a cap on how much residences can be charged for such projects, they don’t pay much more than those on 10th Ave. S.E. It’s a road rehabilitation, meaning that the roadbed has to be rebuilt before new pavement goes on. It also affects 27 properties, including one or two commercial. The cost to residential properties ranges from $1,650 to $3,700. The cost to one of the commercial properties is a whopping $34,000.
The project includes a sidewalk on one side of the street from beginning to end.
Councillor Valerie Tradewell wanted to know why 2nd St. N.E. was not scheduled for re-hab, given its poor condition. Borchert told her that council had deferred any work on it until the new government centre was completed. Tradewell responded that perhaps it was just until “we knew what we were doing” with regard to a new town office, and suggested looking into it.
A third paving project got council’s nod as well – this one a sidewalk along the new section of Main St. south of Hwy. 2, as far what will be a new school site.

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