FAIRHOPE, Ala.—A priority list of 19 road paving projects for a total cost of $1.3 million has been finalized, subject to approval by the City Council, possibly at its Sept. 12 meeting.

After The Fairhope Courier reported Aug. 30 about discrepancies in the road paving list, city leaders met and released a corrected list on Sept. 1.

“I’m glad you were right on top of it, or we would have had a list out there that wasn’t correct,” Mayor Tim Kant told The Courier on Aug. 31.

The final list describes the following sections of roads scheduled for repaving and their projected costs:

• Magnolia Avenue (School Street to Fairhope Avenue), $71,883

• Fels Avenue (South Mobile Street to South Section Street), $73,108

• Bancroft Street (Morphy Avenue to Oak Street), $133,884

• North Section Street (Fels to Oak), $171,301

• North Section Street (Gayfer Avenue to Church Street just south of Main Street), $144,160

• Morphy Avenue (Greeno Road to Church Street), $122,431

• Country Woods Drive, $45,940

• North Beach Park Road (circle at fountain), $61,472

• Fairhope Avenue (Bancroft to Beach Park), $140,462

• Church Street (Fairhope to Fels), $58,513

• Ingleside Avenue (Fairhope to Morphy), $28,404

• Grand Boulevard (one lot both ways from North Section), $4,149

• Nichols Avenue (Greeno to School), $149,819

• Nichols Avenue (School to Section), $37,645

• Nichols Avenue (Section to just west of Church), $21,057

• Deferriet Court, $10,175

• Middle Street (Young Street to Mershon Street), $15,180

• Johnson Avenue (Section to Bancroft), $16,693

• Pecan Avenue (Church to Section), $35,850.

The total projected cost for the 19 road paving projects is $1,342,136, according to a Sept. 1 letter from the project engineer to the public works department.

Kant said negotiations with Mobile Asphalt Co. have reduced the project cost to about $80 or $85 per ton. The initial bid was $125 per ton, about $45 to $50 per ton “higher than would be expected,” according to the project engineer as reported by The Courier last week.