Improvements to City Streets

A committee was established to administer the State Aid City Street Program to help improve the city streets of Arkansas .

Overview of the State Aid Program

The State Aid Street Committee Administers the State Aid City Street Program to assist Arkansas’ incorporated cities and towns in improvements to city streets. The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT) provides technical assistance to the Street Committee and for projects approved by the Street Committee, the ArDOT designs, procures construction contracts, and inspects City Street Program funded projects.

Ask your mayor to submit a request to the street committee

What are the procedures for submitting a request?

Projects

View projects by Status, County and/or City by applying the appropriate filters to the project list.

Approved projects may be in one of four (4) categories: Approved for Construction Funding, Under Construction, Complete or Approved for Design Only.

The default view of this page is to show all projects. You may filter by Project Status by selecting one or more status (to select multiple statuses, hold the Ctrl key while using the mouse to click on statuses of choice). You may narrow the search parameters further by selecting City and/or County.

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10th Ave. & 3rd St. Overlay

City: Foreman
County: Little River
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 6/23/14
Onsite Assessment: 10/7/14
Project Length: 1.25 miles
Approved Date: 1/27/16
Job Number: C41003
2020 Population: 977
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 1/18/17
Contractor: R. K. Hall, LLC
Contract Amount: $261,287.56
Contract Length: 4.05 miles

1st St. Overlay

City: Ravenden
County: Lawrence
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/29/13
Onsite Assessment: 5/29/13
Project Length: 0.61 miles
Approved Date: 6/13/13
Job Number: C38002
2020 Population: 426
Approved Amount: $89,000.00
Letting Date: 4/16/14
Contractor: Atlas Asphalt, Inc.
Contract Amount: $65,075.06
Contract Length: 3.28 miles

28th St. Overlay

City: Van Buren
County: Crawford
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 5/28/13
Onsite Assessment: 10/23/13
Project Length: 0.65 miles
Approved Date: 1/15/14
Job Number: C17002
2020 Population: 23,218
Approved Amount: $237,662.97
Letting Date: 4/21/15
Contractor: Forsgren, Inc.
Contract Amount: $237,662.97
Contract Length: 0.65 miles

2nd St. Overlay

City: Waldron
County: Scott
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 1/13/14
Onsite Assessment: 10/22/14
Project Length: 0.9 miles
Approved Date: 1/14/15
Job Number: C63001
2020 Population: 3,386
Approved Amount: $209,000.00
Letting Date: 2/10/16
Contractor: Blackstone Construction, LLC
Contract Amount: $156,640.69
Contract Length: 0.9 miles

2nd, Church, & Davidson Sts. Overlay

City: Reed
County: Desha
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 2/16/2013
Onsite Assessment: 3/14/2013
Project Length: 0.37 miles
Approved Date: 6/13/2013
Job Number: C21002
2020 Population: 130
Approved Amount: $ 65,000.00
Letting Date: 2/26/2014
Contractor: Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co.
Contract Amount: $ 47,235.64
Contract Length: 2.54 miles

4th Ave. Overlay

City: Piggott
County: Clay
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/25/13
Onsite Assessment: 5/2/13
Project Length: 2.3 miles
Approved Date: 6/13/13
Job Number: C11001
2020 Population: 3,622
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 4/16/14
Contractor: Delta Asphalt of Ark., Inc.
Contract Amount: $250,600.10
Contract Length: 4.59 miles

4th St. Improvements

City: Yellville
County: Marion
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/16/13
Onsite Assessment: 5/1/13
Project Length: 0.29 miles
Approved Date: 1/11/17
Job Number: C45002
2020 Population: 1,178
Approved Amount: $184,099.95
Letting Date: 5/31/17
Contractor: Dilbeck Excavation, Inc.
Contract Amount: $184,099.95
Contract Length: 0.29 miles

5th St. & Maple St. Overlay

City: Bonanza
County: Sebastian
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 2/28/13
Onsite Assessment: 4/25/13
Project Length: 0.8 miles
Approved Date: 6/13/13
Job Number: C65002
2020 Population: 587
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 6/4/14
Contractor: Forsgren, Inc.
Contract Amount: $245,487.41
Contract Length: 0.8 miles

5th, Pine, & Maple Sts. Overlay

City: Paris
County: Logan
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/1/13
Onsite Assessment: 4/18/13
Project Length: 1.95 miles
Approved Date: 6/13/13
Job Number: C42001
2020 Population: 3,176
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 4/16/14
Contractor: Forsgren, Inc.
Contract Amount: $326,576.82
Contract Length: 1.95 miles

6th St. Reconstruction

City: Hope
County: Hempstead
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/22/13
Onsite Assessment: 5/14/13
Project Length: 0.41 miles
Approved Date: 1/10/18
Job Number: C29002
2020 Population: 8,952
Approved Amount: $400,000.00
Letting Date: 4/6/22

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: TBD

Contract Length: 0.41 miles

6th St., College Ave. & Davis St. Overlay

City: Conway
County: Faulkner
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 4/13/17
Onsite Assessment: 9/6/18
Project Length: 1.57 miles
Approved Date: 1/16/19
Job Number: C23006
2020 Population: 64,134
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 1/8/20

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $342,547.20
Contract Length: 1.57 miles

Academy St. & Church Ave. Overlay

City: Berryville
County: Carroll
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 5/14/21
Onsite Assessment: 9/6/22
Project Length: 0.7 miles
Approved Date: 12/14/22
Job Number: C08011
2020 Population: 5,682
Approved Amount: $300,000.00
Letting Date: 1/17/24

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $223,228.59
Contract Length: 0.7 miles

Program

The State Aid City Street System includes those routes that have certain characteristics.

Projects

View projects by Status, County and/or City in our project list.

Meetings

State law requires the Street Committee to meet at least two times each year. Find out our current meetings scheduled

Street Committee

State Aid Street Committee consists of nine appointed mayors.

Most Frequently Asked Questions

To request a project, the Mayor must sign and submit a letter requesting a project to the Street Committee listing the streets, priority, length of the street, and type of work.
For cities with populations over 25,000 people, a 10% match is required. For all other cities, no match is required.
The Street Committee has adopted a rule allowing a city to submit a project request once each calendar year; however, please note that the Street Committee is giving priority to cities that haven’t previously been approved for a project. So if your city was recently approved for a project, the chances of being approved the following year are low.
The Street Committee has adopted a rule limiting the amount of State Aid City Street funds to a maximum of $300,000 for overlay projects and $400,000 for design projects (such as a street widening or a bridge project). For a typical overlay project, this is about 1.3 to 1.8 miles of overlay. So in addition to any required matching funds, cities would be responsible for the costs above this cap or the scope of the project would need to be reduced.
State Law (27-72-414) requires that the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT) handle the construction contracts. As a result the City cannot be reimbursed for doing the work or for hiring a contractor to do the work.
No, the State Aid Division can design the project at no cost to the City or the City may elect to hire a consultant to design it in ArDOT’s format. However if the City hires a consultant, the City must pay 100% of the consultant’s costs. For design projects only, please note that the total amount of ArDOT’s engineering charges (the sum of the design and construction engineering) is capped at a maximum of $160,000 and the City would be responsible for the costs above this cap.