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.

Search Projects

Williams St. & Crawford St. Overlay & Surf.

City: Branch
County: Franklin
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 6/27/16
Onsite Assessment: 8/14/18
Project Length: 2.64 miles
Approved Date: 1/16/19
Job Number: C24002
2020 Population: 296
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 6/19/19

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $277,736.37
Contract Length: 2.64 miles

Williford Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Williford
County: Sharp
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/14/19
Onsite Assessment: 8/27/19
Project Length: 1.91 miles
Approved Date: 2/12/20
Job Number: C67004
2020 Population: 79
Approved Amount: $300,000.00
Letting Date: 2/26/20

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $273,874.88
Contract Length: 4.17 miles

Willisville Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Willisville
County: Nevada
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 4/13/15
Onsite Assessment: 10/7/15
Project Length: 1.23 miles
Approved Date: 1/27/16
Job Number: C50001
2020 Population: 148
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 3/23/16
Contractor: C & F Const. Co., Inc.
Contract Amount: $244,356.10
Contract Length: 6.06 miles

Wilmar 7th St. Bridge Replacement

City: Wilmar
County: Drew
Status: Approved for Construction Funding
Requested Date: 10/15/19
Onsite Assessment: 3/19/19

Project Miles: TBD

Approved Date: 12/6/23
Job Number: C22005
2020 Population: 395
Approved Amount: $400,000.00
Letting Date: 8/13/25

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: TBD

Contract Length: TBD

Wilmar Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Wilmar
County: Drew
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/19/13
Onsite Assessment: 5/23/13
Project Length: 1.53 miles
Approved Date: 6/13/13
Job Number: C22001
2020 Population: 395
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 4/16/14
Contractor: C & F Const. Co., Inc.
Contract Amount: $240,663.30
Contract Length: 1.53 miles

Wilmar Overlay & Surfacing (Various Streets)

City: Wilmar
County: Drew
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 1/13/17
Onsite Assessment: 10/3/17
Project Length: 2.14 miles
Approved Date: 1/10/18
Job Number: C22002
2020 Population: 395
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 6/13/18

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $237,401.45
Contract Length: 2.14 miles

Wilmot Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Wilmot
County: Ashley
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 6/13/13
Onsite Assessment: 10/11/13
Project Length: 1.43 miles
Approved Date: 1/15/14
Job Number: C02003
2020 Population: 416
Approved Amount: $236,600.00
Letting Date: 1/27/15
Contractor: Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co.
Contract Amount: $224,042.87
Contract Length: 2.19 miles

Wilmot Overlay & Surf. (Various Streets)

City: Wilmot
County: Ashley
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 10/29/21
Onsite Assessment: 5/3/22
Project Length: 1.09 miles
Approved Date: 12/14/22
Job Number: C02010
2020 Population: 416
Approved Amount: $300,000.00
Letting Date: 1/17/24

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $288,943.54
Contract Length: 1.09 miles

Wilmot Overlay No. 2 (Various Streets)

City: Wilmot
County: Ashley
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 1/21/16
Onsite Assessment: 12/14/16
Project Length: 1.68 miles
Approved Date: 1/10/18
Job Number: C02005
2020 Population: 416
Approved Amount: $244,875.00
Letting Date: 4/4/18
Contractor: Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co.
Contract Amount: $240,047.00
Contract Length: 3.5 miles

Wilson Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Wilson
County: Mississippi
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 3/13/15
Onsite Assessment: 8/18/15
Project Length: 1.64 miles
Approved Date: 1/27/16
Job Number: C47005
2020 Population: 766
Approved Amount: $250,000.00
Letting Date: 3/23/16
Contractor: Sugg Construction, Inc.
Contract Amount: $200,646.57
Contract Length: 2.38 miles

Wilson Overlay No. 2 (Various Streets)

City: Wilson
County: Mississippi
Status: Under Construction
Requested Date: 9/6/23
Onsite Assessment: 11/7/23
Project Length: 1.37 miles
Approved Date: 12/6/23
Job Number: C47021
2020 Population: 766
Approved Amount: $300,000.00
Letting Date: 1/15/25

Contractor: TBA

Contract Amount: $263,233.25
Contract Length: 1.37 miles

Wilton Overlay (Various Streets)

City: Wilton
County: Little River
Status: Complete
Requested Date: 7/15/14
Onsite Assessment: 10/7/14
Project Length: 1.05 miles
Approved Date: 1/27/16
Job Number: C41003
2020 Population: 287
Approved Amount: $245,886.70
Letting Date: 1/18/17
Contractor: R. K. Hall, LLC
Contract Amount: $245,886.70
Contract Length: 4.05 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.