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Local
Roads Board - Phelps
Township
Redbridge, Ontario
The local roads board meets annually or as often as
it considers necessary, inspect the local roads in the
local roads area. The board may, within the limit of
the money available to pay for such work and subject
to the approval of the Minister, determine the work
to be performed on local roads in the local roads area
and enter into contracts for the performance of such
work. Annual budgets are set and determine the amount
of road work completed.
Each of the board members are elected in public meetings
held annually. Monies from taxes and government determine
the amount allowable for road work that is done over
the budget year.
Local Roads Board Act Local
Roads Boards Act
Roads Maintained: North Side Highway 63 - Traveling
East
Evergreen Road - North River Road - Church Road - Pioneer
Road - Cedar Drive - Rowley Road
- Knox Road Spruce Drive - Folkstone Road
South Side of Highway 63 - Travelling East
- Songis road - Sale Road - Tyes Road - Kawijas Road
- Kelly's Road - Gibson Mill Road - Ypya Road
- Whitehouse Road - Glenvale Road - Mountainview Drive
- Allen's Road - Maple Drive
- Pine Road - Old Mill
Road
Spring/Summer Maintenance
Grading, Ditching, Gravel, Brushing, Beaver Dams, Culvert
Replacement, Dust Control
Fall/Winter
Plowing - Sanding - Steam Culverts
NOTICE: By-Law
Section 180 Highway Traffic Act If the MTO/LRB
is required to bring out equipment to clean up from
property owner plowing across the road, the property
owner will be billed directly for the work.
NOTICE:
Residences of Phelps Township be advised that RR 1 numbers
are no longer valid for mailing purposes. Notify Deb
Ouelette at 705.663.1350 or the MPAC (Municipal Property
Assessment Corporation) directly at 1-866-296-6722,
if you require address changes.
PHELPS LOCAL ROADS BOARD 2021 FALL UPDATE
– Download Fall Update
Annually, the Phelps Local Roads Board along with
the Ministry of Transportation develops a Work Program
and annual Budget for Roads Maintenance. The process
begins with a Roads Tour in early spring to identify
issues and areas that require attention. Cost estimates
are then developed for the potential work items, along
with prioritization based on need and previous years’
maintenance work. Working with MTO, our annual Phelps
Local Roads Board Budget is finalized for the fiscal
year to inform our final Work Program (i.e. what we
can afford to do); which culminates in an approved
Work Program for the Phelps Local Roads Board for
the fiscal year.
The contracts for this 2021 Work Program will be tendered
as per government requirements, and we expect work
will begin late summer for most of the gravel and
ditching efforts. Full grading and the application
of calcium will begin in early June to help contain
the dust before the summer season.
As well, we have requested traffic counters on the
3 main township roads – Mountainview, North
River and Songis Roads for early July, to help inform
any future funding opportunities that may arise. (Note
that a traffic counter on Songis Road for a one week
period last August (during the pandemic and not on
a long weekend) found traffic to be much higher than
anticipated.)
Most of the feedback regarding road conditions from
residents this year has been positive – in part
thanks to our milder than normal winter conditions.
We thank everyone for their patience.
If you have any questions, please contact the Phelps
Local Roads Board.
Stay Safe!
Raymond Ouellette, Chairperson
Sandy Mannering, Trustee
Larry Douglas, Trustee
2021 PHELPS LOCAL ROADS BOARD APPROVED WORK PROGRAM
Songis Road
• “Children
at Play” signs before and after Daycare - completed
• Replace entrance
pipe at Trailer Park - completed
• Gravel to outside corner of S curve to improve
grade on curve
• Gravel from Tyes Road to entrance on right
at top of hill
• Remove leaning
balsam and poplar trees to prevent fallen trees on
road - completed
Sale Road
• Dig out frost heaved section and replace with
gravel – completed
• Replace “Sale Road” sign at Songis
– completed
Kelly Road
• Gravel to far side of Kelly’s
• Replace “Kelly
Road” sign at Songis - completed
Rowley Road
• Gravel to end of road
• Ditch left side
at mudslide - completed
Cedar Road
• Gravel to end of road
Pioneer Road
• Gravel from Knox’s Road to knoll
• Gravel to Spruce Road
• Replace culvert
pipe at Spruce Road - completed
Spruce Road
• Gravel from before Bradley Creek to bush
trail
Mountainview Road
• Gravel from Maple Road to end, where needed
Maple Road
• Gravel from first Turn circle to end
** Most of the 2021 Road work
has been completed as indicated above.
*** Please note: the gravel tender came back 3 times
higher than expected. This was in part of large firms
applying. Another tender is now in place hoping to attract
more local contractors to bid. As we are now in September,
not all the gravel maintenance may be completed this
year
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Phelps Local Roads Board,
c/o 90 Tyes Road,
Redbridge, ON,
P0H 2A0
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Local Roads Board
Members
Chairperson: Justin Foreman
Trustee: Tyler Moulder
Trustee:Larry Douglas
Sec/Treas: Deb Ouellette
Email:
phelpslrb@gmail.com
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