Street improvements could be in the cards for Locust Avenue and Cobblestone Court.

Reconstruction on those two roads were mentioned at the recent Ripon City Council meeting.

This came when elected leaders inquired about the $5 million or so in Street and Road funding at the Aug. 9 meeting.

City Administrator Kevin Werner, during a transfer of funds into that accounted, noted that a portion of that money was placed in the Street and Road Reserve fund.

Much of these funds were initially planned for the Stockton Avenue Reconstruction Project. 

“However, the City was able to secure grant funding and the project cost the City less than $100,000 in Street and Road Operating fund,” Werner said.

Work on Stockton Avenue was all but completed the summer. Included were the installation of concrete pavers from Second Street to Doak Avenue along with new sidewalks and streetlights – Measure K was among the big funding sources.

Werner, meanwhile, indicated that there’s a three-year plan for the Street and Road funds.

That’s where the reconstruction projects were mentioned.

Werner said that $2.8 million could go to preventative maintenance – the three-layer systems, in this case – and $2.7 million to reconstruction projects such as Cobblestone Court and Locust Avenue.

Councilman Gary Barton applauded those efforts, adding that having such funds available were the results of a city that “is run in a fiscally conservative fashion,” he said.

Barton added: “The city had been given direction for many years by (various) Councils and we are the beneficiaries of this.”