The Municipality of West Nipissing is getting a sense of where to spend additional tax gas money.
Earlier the federal government announced a one-time top-up of the gas tax amounting to $901,318.33.
The municipality has five years to spend the money.
Council agrees Cache Bay Road and Evansville Road need lots of work.
Recently, members of council were sent a video from a dash camera from a vehicle that almost hit a pedestrian.
With plenty of bumps on the road, there’s consensus on council that Evansville Road is a safety issue.
Cache Bay Road is heavily travelled and it will need to be pulverized and afterward resurfaced.
The plan here is to leave good parts of the road intact, cut out the bad sections and then carry out the repaving.
Staff says this will give the municipality another 15 to 20 years of life on Cache Bay Road.
Both projects will eat up only a fraction of the gas tax money, leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars available for other work.
Mayor Joanne Savage wants to see sidewalks the municipality had removed in Verner’s downtown some time back reinstalled.
However, this has to be studied because council was told the former sidewalk would cause spring flooding as a result of a drainage issue.
Savage says she’s never seen the flooding.
But Councillor Yvon Duhaime says drainage will have to be installed to get rid of the water before sidewalks can be reinstalled and that will require a study.