Carrollton Council Approves Paving Project

BY GENA HUFF, Editor

At the monthly meeting on April 5, the Carrollton Town Council voted to spend up to $125,000 on a road-paving project for the city. Two bids were received for the project, one from Mallory Burkhalter Paving and the other from ST Bunn Construction Co., Inc., both out of the Tuscaloosa area.

Mallory Burkhalter Paving clearly won the bid, coming in at $87 a ton, which includes clipping edges, sweeping, taxes, leveling, and paving an inch and a half. ST Bunn came in at a price of $92.75 a ton, price per ton with patching was bid at $120.

Other projects have caused Mayor Mickey Walker to be more cautious in the paving and how much will be spent. He felt he could still get about 50 percent of the streets in town, and definitely those in the most need, repaved. Any money saved or not used for the 50 percent, could be rationed out to other paving projects on a street by street basis. “I don’t feel like we can do all of those streets,” Walker told council members. “I do feel like we could do half of them. This price we got right here is going to come in less than what I had figured. I figured this at $93 a ton. That is good.”