The list, which could be modified after bids are received according to Assistant City Manager Tommy Warren, calls for resurfacing three city streets and paving five others.

Warren said the list included “several dirt streets in the Somerset Annexation area.” (See related story on this page).

“The final number of streets resurfaced will be based upon the bid price,” Warren wrote in a memo to council members. He went on to explain that the street resurfacing bid is “a unit cost bid.

“We estimate the number of tons of asphalt that can be purchased with the funds budgeted,” Warren explained. “After bids are opened, with this being a unit price bid, the number of tons of asphalt that can be placed and stay within the budget is the number of tons purchased.

“Sometimes this requires the city to change the order of the streets that are resurfaced based upon the tons required to resurface each street.”

The preliminary list calls for the following streets to be resurfaced:

• Court Street (from Lamar Street to Madison Boulevard);

• Lamar Street (from Gordon Street to Morehead Street);

• Reams Avenue (from Lamar Street to Madison Boulevard).

The following streets are tentatively scheduled for paving:

• Gates Street;

• Summer Ridge;

• Layne Street;

• David Lane;

• Bywood Drive.

Warren will also present some promising news to council Tuesday concerning lake levels that supply water for the City of Roxboro.

Warren pointed out in a memo to council that the levels at both City Lake, the city’s primary water source, and Lake Roxboro have increased over the past month.

“Lake Roxboro was 105 inches below normal on Oct. 23, 2007,” Warren wrote. On that same date, City Lake was 26.5 inches below normal.

As of Thursday, however, City Lake was up to a level of only six inches low, while Lake Roxboro had improved to a level of 89 inches low.

“As long as the rains continue, the lake levels will increase this spring,” Warren added.