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.

Overview of the State Aid Program

Ask your mayor to submit a request to the street committee

Submit a Request

What are the procedures for submitting a request?

Learn More about Procedures

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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Wheatley Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Wheatley
County: St. Francis
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 8/9/13
Onsite Assessment: 11/21/13
Project Length: 1.63 miles
Approved Date: 1/15/14
Job Number: C68002
2020 Population: 279
Approved Amount: $244,500.00
Letting Date: 7/23/14
Contractor: APAC-Tennessee, Inc.
Contract Amount: $197,472.86
Contract Length: 5.4 miles

Wheatley Overlay & Surf. (Various Streets)

City: Wheatley
County: St. Francis
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 4/29/21
Onsite Assessment: 8/4/22
Project Length: 0.68 miles
Approved Date: 12/14/22
Job Number: C68008
2020 Population: 279
Approved Amount: $277,218.03
Letting Date: 3/1/23

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $277,218.03
Contract Length: 0.68 miles

Wheatley Overlay No. 2 (Various Streets)

City: Wheatley
County: St. Francis
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 11/6/17
Onsite Assessment: 7/31/18
Project Length: 1.98 miles
Approved Date: 1/16/19
Job Number: C68003
2020 Population: 279
Approved Amount: $231,091.64
Letting Date: 2/27/19

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $231,091.64
Contract Length: 1.98 miles

Whelen Springs Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Whelen Springs
County: Clark
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/16/15
Onsite Assessment: 9/23/15
Project Length: 1.39 miles
Approved Date: 1/27/16
Job Number: C10002
2020 Population: 47
Approved Amount: $194,205.76
Letting Date: 1/18/17
Contractor: C & F Const. Co., Inc.
Contract Amount: $194,205.76
Contract Length: 4.91 miles

Whelen Springs Ovl. & Surf. (Various Streets)

City: Whelen Springs
County: Clark
Status: Approved for Construction Funding
Requested Date: 5/7/24
Onsite Assessment: 6/18/24
Project Length: 0.38 miles
Approved Date: 12/11/24
Job Number: C10008
2020 Population: 47
Approved Amount: $227,705.00
Letting Date: 1/1/26

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: TBD

Contract Length: TBD

White Hall Overlay (Various Streets)

City: White Hall
County: Jefferson
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 1/10/14
Onsite Assessment: 12/11/14
Project Length: 1.6 miles
Approved Date: 1/14/15
Job Number: C35004
2020 Population: 5,581
Approved Amount: $243,600.00
Letting Date: 2/10/16
Contractor: Cranford Construction Co.
Contract Amount: $201,292.69
Contract Length: 1.6 miles

White Hall Overlay No. 2 (Various Streets)

City: White Hall
County: Jefferson
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 4/26/21
Onsite Assessment: 5/25/21
Project Length: 0.81 miles
Approved Date: 12/8/21
Job Number: C35007
2020 Population: 5,581
Approved Amount: $300,000.00
Letting Date: 1/17/24

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $276,257.33
Contract Length: 1.85 miles

Wickes Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Wickes
County: Polk
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 11/10/14
Onsite Assessment: 8/6/15
Project Length: 1.27 miles
Approved Date: 1/27/16
Job Number: C57002
2020 Population: 637
Approved Amount: $203,000.00
Letting Date: 4/12/17
Contractor: Crow Paving, Inc.
Contract Amount: $196,040.05
Contract Length: 2.79 miles

Wickes Overlay & Surfacing (Various Streets)

City: Wickes
County: Polk
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 4/17/23
Onsite Assessment: 6/22/23
Project Length: 1.06 miles
Approved Date: 12/6/23
Job Number: C57006
2020 Population: 637
Approved Amount: $300,000.00
Letting Date: 2/28/24

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $370,578.46
Contract Length: 2.93 miles

Wickes Overlay & Surfacing No. 3 (Various Streets)

City: Wickes
County: Polk
Status: Requested
Requested Date: May, 27 2025

Onsite Assessment: TBD

Project Miles: TBD

Approval Date: TBD

Job Number: TBD

2020 Population: 637

Approved Amount: TBD

Letting Date: TBA

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: TBD

Contract Length: TBD

Widener Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Widener
County: St. Francis
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 5/7/13
Onsite Assessment: 11/5/13
Project Length: 0.47 miles
Approved Date: 1/15/14
Job Number: C68002
2020 Population: 212
Approved Amount: $197,740.95
Letting Date: 7/23/14
Contractor: APAC-Tennessee, Inc.
Contract Amount: $197,740.95
Contract Length: 5.4 miles

Widener Overlay & Surfacing (Various Streets)

City: Widener
County: St. Francis
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/25/19
Onsite Assessment: 8/13/19
Project Length: 0.84 miles
Approved Date: 2/12/20
Job Number: C68005
2020 Population: 212
Approved Amount: $155,289.70
Letting Date: 5/13/20

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $147,537.54
Contract Length: 2.76 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.

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Arkansas State Aid City Street Program

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North Little Rock, Arkansas 72115

Phone: 501.569.2346

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