The city of Dunkirk has awarded a $381,462.71 contract to Lakeshore Paving of Jamestown for milling and paving of several streets.

The resolution passed by the Dunkirk Common Council Tuesday states that “the main targets are these roads: McDonough, Sobieski, Courtney and its feeders from the south up to the tracks of King, Lincoln, Franklin, Bucknor, Lord, Hoyt, Nevins and Townsend; Eagle south of Second; Willow Road; and portions of Warsaw, Ocelot, Leming, Webster and Beagle.”

Randy Woodbury, Department of Public Works director, said he would finalize the contract with Lakeshore Paving Wednesday, and that since they already have workers and equipment deployed in the city for other projects, they can probably start working on the milling and paving next week.

Second Ward Councilman Marty Bamonto expressed a desire to get more paving done in his district.

“All these on the list, they do need to be paved. There’s no doubt about it,” he said. “I think we have some extra money, I think there should be more roads that should be paved. We have some issues in the Second Ward, I’ve got some people out there that have been bugging me since 2016.”

Bamonto held out Fifth Street as an issue. “Now we’ve got a lot of activity going on at the middle school, we’ve got more kids going in and out of there. That’s more traffic,” he said. “We’ve got more traffic at the high school than we’ve had in years and years. … those issues are safety issues that need to be taken care of.

“I’m pleading to get these roads done in the Second Ward. It’s not just the roads coming from Fifth and Sixth, it’s the side streets that are going to be used more and more now,” he continued. “They’re depleted, they need to be taken care of. I’m urging the people that complain, too — keep the complaints coming.”

Bamonto concluded the condition of the streets near the schools is a concern of everyone in the city, not just the Second Ward, because people from all over the city work or drop off their kids there.

Woodbury noted that Lakeshore Paving’s winning bid was lower than expected, and that Tuesday’s resolution allows for addition or subtraction of roads to the paving project.

“We anticipated there would be more that would come to light that we would want to do,” he said. “We didn’t know we would get such a good number (on the bid). So we accepted all of the ones that were on the wish list, and we’re going to expand the wish list with the ones you mentioned, the ones the mayor takes a look at, and anyone else wants to call in, we’ll take a look at those as well.”