Crisfield officials discuss guidelines for road resurfacing project

It’s been more than three  years since Hurricane Sandy, but the effects are still felt in the town of Crisfield.

Crisfield Mayor Kimberly Lawson says, “We are so behind and some of our streets are in such a deteriorated situation.”

47 ABC spoke with Joe Paden, a Crisfield resident, who agrees that more work on the roads is needed to be done.

“The drainage back in the wooded areas is not allowing the water from the streets to get off so it’s creating some cracks and stuff,” says Paden.

Paden was biking with his family and says he would like to see some improvements on the road make their rides a little smoother.

“There’s primarily the ones the boats and that the trailers going to be coming down so we can get some outside people here,” says Paden.

Mayor Lawson and the city council have  been working on a number of road resurfacing projects for the city. Their latest project, which began in October,  involves resurfacing at least eight of the city’s ten high priority roads. Some of the proposed priority roads include Somerset Avenue, 10th Street and Hammock Point.

However, in order to kick-off this resurfacing project they need to borrow up to $850,000  from the city.

“This is because haven’t had highway user funds redistributed to us from the state as no municipalities have in the state except for Baltimore city,” says Mayor Lawson.

A workshop meeting will be  held Monday evening to discuss those priority roads, but also to focus if the city will be able to pay back that amount of money.

Mayor Lawson tells us that there will be two more meetings in April to further discuss this project, but a final decision on the amount of money will be made by the end of April.