The city of Bowling Green could resurface almost five miles of roads this construction season.

At its 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting, the Bowling Green City Commission is slated to vote on a $570,237.50 bid by Scotty’s Contracting and Stone LLC for asphalt overlay. Originally, the city budgeted $850,000 to resurface 3.8 miles of streets and roads, including some sidewalks, curbs and gutters. In their budgeting, they included a buffer for increases in the liquid asphalt prices, according to a memo from public works director Emmett Wood.

Because those prices stayed flat, Scotty’s Contracting and Stone’s bid was well under budget, allowing for the additional resurfacing.

The funds are coming entirely from Kentucky’s liquid fuel tax.

The largest project is almost a mile of Wilkinson Trace from Bent Tree Subdivision to Scottsville Road. Other roads include portions of McLellan Road, Tomblinson Way, Hampton Avenue, Beauty Avenue, Jackson Street, Scottsville Road (Frontage Road), Chestnut Street, State Street, Euclid Avenue, Newberry Street, Hunter Court, Jackson Street, Raven Street, Ogden Way, Tobacco Road, Emmett Avenue, West Main Avenue, Bent Tree Avenue, Tablott Drive, Cabell Drive, Wilmington Court and Plum Springs Loop.

Bowling Green Ballpark parking

In preparation for the start of the Bowling Green Hot Rods’ fast-approaching baseball season, city commission is being asked to make a few changes to parking around Bowling Green Ballpark.

The first change is to allow 30-minute parking on Eighth Avenue in front of the stadium’s entrance. Currently, there is no parking there. The parking would be in a pull-off area, and allow for normal flow of traffic according to a Department of Public Works memo.

The other change would extend the no-parking zone along Center Street where it intersects with Eighth Avenue. This is an effort to ensure people recognize the stop sign since traffic on Eighth Avenue does not stop.

The Hot Rods’ home opener is at 5:05 p.m. Sunday.

Work session

At a nonvoting work session prior to its regular meeting Tuesday, the city commission will examine extending its free wireless Internet network. Currently, free wireless Internet is offered at Fountain Square Park, Circus Square Park, Russell Sims Water Park, Kereiakes Park, the Skate Park, Covington Woods Park and Lovers Lane Soccer Complex.

The city also has a wireless network that covers the entire city for its public safety agencies.

The commission also will look at how to fix issues at its Butler County landfill. Several problems have arisen about the management of leachate, the liquid that has been, or could be, in contact with the refuse. An inspection by the Kentucky Department of Waste in September revealed a few surface outbreaks of leachate, and too many trees on the landfill cap.