(A) (1) When the Town Council has determined that any road shall be constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or improved, the Council shall determine by resolution, by unanimous vote if acting without a petition, and by a majority vote if acting upon a petition, the route and termini of the road, and the kind and extent of the improvement, and at the same time shall order the Town Engineer or an independent professional engineer, to make surveys, plans, profiles, cross-sections, estimates, and specifications as are required for the improvement.
(2) If an independent professional engineer is hired, the Town Engineer shall review all of the independent professional engineer’s plans for improvements and provide the Town Council with comments on those plans within ten working days after receiving them.
(3) The Town Engineer shall monitor all of the independent professional engineer’s plans for improvements in order to maintain compliance with existing construction standards and thoroughfare plans, and coordinate construction timelines within the town.
(B) If the Town Council orders the Town Engineer to act, the Council may order the Town Engineer to make alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross-sections, estimates, and specifications, providing in them for different widths of roadway, or different materials, and approve all or any number of these alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross-sections, estimates, and specifications. When alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross-sections, estimates, and specifications are approved by the Council, the Council and Town Engineer shall, after the opening of bids, agree which of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross-sections, estimates, and specifications shall be finally adopted for construction of the improvement.
(C) The Town Council hereby adopts the following attached existing and proposed low-volume local road details as an expression of its intent as it relates to the evaluation and design of roads to be accepted into the town roadway system or to be built by the town.
(Res. 2016-6, passed 8- -2016)