FPUD awards year-long paving contracts

The Fallbrook Public Utility District will no longer be awarding paving contracts for specific individual projects but instead will use a primary and backup asphalt paving contractor and one concrete paving contractor for paving work throughout Fiscal Year 2016-17.

A 5-0 FPUD board vote June 27 designated George W. Weir Asphalt Construction of Escondido as FPUD's primary asphalt contractor, Peters Paving and Grading of Rainbow as the secondary asphalt contractor, and Medina Construction of Riverside as the concrete paving contractor.

"We are changing our procedure on awarding paving jobs," sai...