(La Porte, IN) - One of the worst-conditioned roads in La Porte will be repaved. Boyd Boulevard will receive a new surface from Jefferson Avenue to Ohio Street.

 

"It's been a long time coming for years," said Mayor Tom Dermody.

 

Dermody said a bid for close to $750,000 was awarded recently to Rieth Riley Construction Company.

 

The city is paying just 20 percent of the cost of the contract awarded by the Indiana Department of Transportation. Federal dollars received by INDOT are funding the remainder of the expense.

 

Dermody said waiting to repave that stretch of Boyd Boulevard produced savings for local taxpayers. The city would have paid half the cost had it not been for the higher cost-sharing federal dollars later becoming available.

 

Dermody said the resurfacing is scheduled to be completed by the end of November.

 

Dermody also revealed Truesdell Avenue would also be repaved next year with help from a monetary gift by the La Porte Healthcare Foundation.