Alley vacation up for vote

The city council’s Public Works Committee this week will consider vacating part of the north/south alley north of Williams Street and east of North Vermilion Street for a drive-through tobacco shop.

The new shop would be located in the little strip mall on the northeast corner of Williams and Vermilion streets, at 501 N. Vermilion St., according to Mayor Scott Eisenhauer.

Shicia Wang of Urbana is paying the city $1,307 for the alley vacation.

In other business, the committee will consider:

-- Approving about $88,000 in additional sewer work by Atlas Excavating of West Lafayette, Ind., in the areas of Oak, Franklin and Walnut streets and Vermilion Street from Voorhees to Roselawn.

The city requested additional work: to extend portions of the improvement north after finding conflicts with existing utilities, to repair and replace collapsed storm sewers and to pay for work on a time and material basis in areas where telephone duct banks could not be relocated or taken out of service.

The total contract: $779,866.

-- Approving an additional $15,000 in Danville Stadium roof work by Craftmasters Roofing of Decatur. Additional work was needed for installation of new sheeting on the front overhang of the roof, which was found once overhang was exposed to view.

The funds come from the city’s Parks and Public Property maintenance of buildings’ funds.

-- Approving a contract for a poured concrete floor for the parks storage and maintenance facility at the Voorhees Street Public Works Operations Center. City officials were to open bids today. Funds come from the city’s capital budget for buildings.

-- Authorizing Eisenhauer to enter into an engineering agreement, not to exceed $54,500, to perform a traffic-use study at various schools: Danville High School, North Ridge Middle School, Edison Elementary and East Park Elementary.

The Danville Area Transportation Study has budgeted and given approval for the city to enter into an agreement to assess and make traffic pattern recommendations that will tie into future Jackson Street improvements.

The city’s 20 percent funding for the project comes from the Midtown Tax Increment Financing District.

Eisenhauer said the city has three engineering proposals to consider.

-- Prohibiting parking on both sides of Griffin Street between Main and Voorhees streets. The city plans to stripe newly paved Griffin with two 10-foot travel lanes and two 5-foot shoulders to move traffic away from the curb line to increase pavement life and to allow for easier passage of fire safety equipment and buses.