Sugar Grove will upgrade roads

Sugar Grove trustees approved engineering plans to re-pave portions of Wheeler and Hankes roads at Tuesday's village board meeting.

The village will use both village and state funding to pay for the $1.31 million project, with $412,00 coming from village funds and $905,400 from state funding through the Local Agency Pavement Preservation project.

Plans call for asphalt removal, paving and patching on Hankes Road from the Route 56 overpass to Winthrop New Road, a distance of just over one mile, and the same work on Wheeler Road on a two-mile stretch west from Route 47.

Village Trustee Robert Bohler expressed concern that the need to repair portions of Granert and Dugan roads was "more critical" than the need to repair Wheeler and Hankes roads.

"My concern is that the condition of Granert and Dugan roads is even more dire," Bohler said.

Public Works Director Anthony Speciale explained that Granert Road just recently became part of the village and that work on Dugan Road had been delayed pending other construction work near the Aurora Airport.

Also, the Local Agency Pavement Preservation funding is specifically for the Wheeler and Hankes roads repair and is administered through the Kane/Kendall Council of Mayors Surface Transportation Program.

Also at Tuesday's meeting, the board declared four vehicles as surplus so that the vehicles can be placed on I-Bid, an Illinois Web site which allows users to bid on buying items.

The vehicles now for sale are a 1995 Ford pickup, a 1986 Chevrolet pickup, a 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan and a 2000 Saturn.