Section of Linwood Ave, Borough Hall Roof to Get Makeovers

The Fort Lee Borough Council may award two separate bids to the same company for improvements to a section of Linwood Ave. and for general asphalt milling services. The borough is also preparing to take bids on a new roof for Borough Hall.

Assistant borough engineer Ed Mignone briefed the mayor and council on the projects at last week’s executive session.

The Linwood Ave. roadway improvement project, which will be funded by a $150,000 grant the borough received from the Department of Transportation, will include milling down the road and repaving it, installing handicapped ramps and working on a sewer line along the stretch of Linwood Ave. between Myrtle and Fletcher Aves., according to borough administrator Peggy Thomas.

The work is expected to start “right after school gets out” and take three to four weeks to complete, Thomas said.

The low bidder for the Linwood Ave. project was DLS Contracting of Nutley, N.J., which presented a bid of $139,310.

DLS Contracting was also the low bidder for general asphalt milling services for the borough at $18,000 per day, which Thomas said covers about 6,000 square yards a day.

“Because we do so many streets in town, we went out to get the lowest bidder to come in to do the milling services for us,” she said. “We can do some of the paving ourselves, but [for] milling, we need to bring somebody else in. That could be anywhere where [milling] is needed in the borough.”

Mignone also discussed authorization to bid for a new roof for Borough Hall at 309 Main St. at Thursday’s meeting, a project Thomas characterized as a “complete rebuilding” of the roof.

“We’re going to put together the bid specs and see who comes in the lowest,” Thomas said Monday. “It’s been patched. It’s leaking. The infrastructure underneath the roof itself is rotting, because it’s wood, and so it just needs to be rebuilt.”

All three items are going to be put on the Mayor and Council’s agenda for its regular meeting Thursday, Thomas said.