To achieve the infrastructure goal in the City of Sheboygan’s Strategic Plan, the Sheboygan Department of Public Works (DPW) is continuing an aggressive street resurfacing and reconstruction schedule again this year. In 2021 we have budgeted for 5.75 miles of streets to be resurfaced. We are in the fifth year of a multiyear program to resurface city streets. At this point we have tripled the average miles of streets resurfaced per year. In the years 2007-2012 the City resurfaced an average of 1.4 miles of streets per year. During the years 2013-2019 the City resurfaced an average of 4.2 miles of streets resurfaced per year.
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Listed below are the 2021 street resurfacing projects scheduled to be done by contractors:
- Georgia Avenue (S. 8th Street to S. Business Drive)
- 10th Street (Indiana Avenue to Broadway Avenue)
- Union Avenue (Georgia Avenue to N. 26th Street)
- Geele Avenue (N. 3rd Street to Calumet Drive)
- Calumet Drive Panel Replacement (Erie Avenue to Saemann Avenue)
Listed below are all the 2021 street resurfacing projects scheduled to be done by DPW crews:
- 12th Street (Union Avenue to Greenfield Avenue)
- Najacht Road (Mill Road Bridge to Rolling Meadows Drive)
- Park Avenue (N. 3rd Street to east of N. 1st Street.)
- Taylor Drive (north of Saemann Avenue to North Avenue)
- Superior Avenue (N. 22nd Street to N. 18th Street)
The aggressive resurfacing plan was financed with road aids funding from the State of Wisconsin, bonding from the City Capital Improvements Program, Sheboygan County sales tax revenue sharing, vehicle registration fee, the DPW operating budget, and funding from the City Housing and Urban Development Budget allocation. There are many types of repairs that were funded in this program. They include milling off asphalt over concrete and resurfacing with new asphalt, new concrete, new asphalt over concrete resurfacing, asphalt road seal, crack filling, curb replacement, and gutter replacement.
About 40% of the street improvement projects will be done by the DPW Streets Department staff. Having the Public Works employees using an asphalt paving machine, along with purchasing asphalt from the County Highway Department, results in overall lower costs to repair streets, ultimately allowing the department to repair more miles of streets. Depending on the cost of materials, the department may be able to add some additional project to their schedule and finish more miles of streets than currently scheduled for resurfacing.
This program not only addresses the obvious repairs, but also funds maintenance operations that focus repairs on streets that are rated good or better to extend the life of this infrastructure. The city’s street network, much like other critical infrastructure, has a direct impact on the City of Sheboygan’s quality of life and the economy. The infrastructure investment today will have lasting impacts on future generations. Typical repairs last 15-20 years, whereas, reconstruction projects will last 50 years.
The City of Sheboygan is over 150 years old and the street network of more than 200 miles was not built in a few years. The generations before us planned and constructed a community of neighborhoods and streets that has served our community well. It is now our responsibility to maintain and preserve this system for future generations.