{"id":176582,"date":"2023-09-01T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=176582"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:41:43","slug":"pec-council-approves-spot-road-repair-program-and-street-sweeper-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/pec-council-approves-spot-road-repair-program-and-street-sweeper-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"PEC Council approves spot road repair program and street sweeper replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Prince Edward County Council authorized $603,893.15 (plus taxes) worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/8D3DC6ADD74A42F596F18008F1ED8B31-OPS-13-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">road repairs<\/a> along with the purchase of a $461,597.00 (plus taxes) replacement <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/486315B8996E4C06A89D1A24F74988CD-OPS-12-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">street sweeper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The county\u2019s road surface spot repair program budget was doubled to $622,000 during the 2023 operating budget process, and it will most likely be utilized as the county only received one bid submission (for a similar amount) during tender, from Kiley Paving Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>County staff did not recommend issuing another tender for the work, even though there was a lack of competition. This was due to the limited number of large-scale paving contractors willing to work on smaller scale work such as road spot repair.<\/p>\n<p>Council also awarded FST Canada Inc. over $460,000 for the provision of a replacement street sweeper after the original unit was involved in a collision in the spring of last year. Proceeds from its insurance policy covered about half the cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Prince Edward County Council authorized $603,893.15 (plus taxes) worth of road repairs along with the purchase of a $461,597.00 (plus taxes) replacement street sweeper. The county\u2019s road surface spot repair program budget was doubled to $622,000 during the 2023 operating budget process, and it will most likely be utilized as the county only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":150510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225,2602],"tags":[4615,29860,16733,25980,13816,15364],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176875,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176582\/revisions\/176875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176582"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=176582"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=176582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}