By NEAL WAGNER / Managing Editor

ALABASTER – The city of Alabaster will use restricted gas tax funds to pay for multiple repaving projects completed in the city over the past few months after the City Council approved the action during an Oct. 12 meeting.

The council voted unanimously during the meeting to spend the restricted gas tax funds – which can only be used for certain road projects – to cover the cost of the recent repaving projects.

During the summer, Alabaster and the Shelby County Highway Department worked to repave Shelby County 95 and a portion of First Avenue West. Because a southern portion of Shelby County 95 is considered a city road, Alabaster paid $35,182.41 in gas tax funds for the repaving project.

During the summer, the city also moved forward with emergency repaving projects on Shady Lane off Alabama 119 and on Allen Drive off Shelby County 68 in the northern end of the city. The Shady Lane project cost $2,900, while the Allen drive repaving project totaled $6,300.

The three repaving projects totaled $44,382.41, all of which were expensed during the city’s 2015 fiscal year.