Street Maintenance On SATURDAY 8/22

Good Afternoon.

The Village was notified today that FAHRNER Asphalt Sealers will be performing street maintenance
TOMORROW-Saturday, August 22d.
Here are the specific areas that will be affected:

• 100 Block of Lakewood Blvd (North and South Lanes)
• 200 Block of Lakewood Blvd (Northbound Lane)
• Intersections at following locations:

1. Roxbury/Lakewood
2. Cambridge/Lakewood
3. Kensington/Bayside/Lakewood

The maintenance will be a process similar to what is called Chip Seal. It will involve an aggregate and the use of black slag and then streetsweeping to clean everything up.

The benefit to this process is that the street is completely usable immediately after the application is applied. Some of you may remember a process in the past that required vehicular traffic from staying off of the surface for a day or two after; this is a different process. It should cause minimal disruption.

There will be no parking in the areas mentioned above. The contractor has already posted those areas where parking will not be allowed.

We anticipate that the contractor will begin their work around 8am tomorrow and should be completed within a few hours.

Have a great weekend--enjoy the fabulous weather!!

Farwell Drive Water Main Flushing

The Outer Farwell Drive area had a Hydrant Flush conducted so if you experience some water discoloration, please go to the lowest level of your home and turn on your cold water until the water clears up!!

Gypsy Moths

We have had reports of gypsy moths in concentrated areas of the Village. If you have noticed, observed, or experienced gypsy moths in or around your property, please let me know.

If you email me, I can also forward information from the DNR regarding the Gypsy Moth program.

Construction Details

Many thanks to those residents who have chosen to attend our neighborhood meetings regarding the street construction next year. At these meetings, we tried to provide information about the construction process and how it will impact your street, your access, and overall, the general infrastructure and street impacts.

One example of this discussion is related to the width of Kensington Drive. This particular street is quite wide in some areas and realisitically, staff felt that it could be narrowed. At the neighborhood meeting, residents shared their thoughts, some in support of narrowing the streets and some in favor of keeping the width as it is now, which in most areas of Kensington Drive is over 36' wide.

A variety of concerns were discussed for both sides, including parking, saving or trying to limit the damage to the street tree's, costs, traffic calming, traffic routing and similar concerns.

Staff took those concerns and reached a compromise, which ideally accomplishes everyones objectives, on the width for this street. Our initial recommendation brought that street into comparable width as other Village streets (28.5') but after listening to points of neighbors, we proposed to the Public Works Committee a street width of 32.5'. That committee accepted that proposal and will make that recommendation to the Village Board tonight.

Please stay informed on construction for next year and if you have questions or concerns, please be sure to bring them up to someone (staff or elected officials or committee members). We are working diligently to keep information free flowing!!

Dailey Service Award

Start thinking about the next Dailey Service Award Winner. Remember that this award is for a Village Resident who has gone above and beyond on behalf of the Village.

Nomination forms will be disseminated soon....but start thinking now!!

Hoses & Handcuffs!!! SEPT 28th

Good Afternoon,

Many people, including myself and founder of the event Dave Bruns, thought that the Hoses & Handcuffs Golf Outing had seen it's last year. However, two Village Residents have decided to grab the baton and take off running with the event!! Quite frankly, I think I may have trouble keeping up!!

Kristen Carreira and Michael Browne had such a great time at the event last year, that they wanted to help plan and organize the event this year. Unfortunately, most associated with the event did not think any new leadership would step up to take over. But alas, it has happened; Michael and Kristen are just those leaders!!

Look for more information soon, including the registration form. But for now, set aside the date of Monday, September 28th for this great event!! As the golfing season comes to an end, what better way than to have one last, nice friendly casual scramble with some friends!!

In the meantime, if you want to help with this event, please let me know and I will get you intouch with Kristen!!!