Phase 1 of Pataskala's $600,000 Taylor Road project wrapped up last week.

Now city officials are working on the next phase -- to repair and repave the road between Broad Street and Havens Corners Road, using a combination of funding from the city, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Ryan Homes.

Council members waived readings Nov. 16 and approved an ordinance to enter into a contract with local engineering firm EMH&T to redesign the southbound left-turn lane on Taylor Road, north of Broad Street.

The ordinance also allows city administrator Timothy Boland to go out to bid and accept the lowest and best bid for the project.

The costs to redesign the intersection through EMH&T will not exceed $17,000 and will be funded from $216,000 Pataskala has budgeted for its portion of the project, Boland said.

Ryan Homes contributed $179,200 for in-depth repairs to the portion of Taylor Road near its Taylor Glen subdivision.

The $202,461 in ARRA funds will be used to pave the entire length of the road between Broad Street and Havens Corners Road after the in-depth repairs are completed.

"Once we get the full-depth repairs done, we get the turn lane done and the other repairs; then the stimulus money comes, and we would resurface the whole road," Boland said. "The city did apply for American Recovery and Reinvestment, or stimulus, dollars in March of this year, and that was one of the projects that did receive resurfacing funding."

Boland, who has said the city is paying only about 36 percent of the project, said that without the combination of the other funds, the ARRA money would have been able to complete only about a third of the stretch of road.

"This was an opportunity to leverage those funds and put together a funding structure that would allow us to perform full-depth repairs and resurface the road," he said. "This will allow us to have a 'complete street.'"

He said "complete street" is the term they use for an entirely repaired roadway from top to bottom.

Boland said he expects to go out to bid soon on the turn-lane project and have the entire project completed next summer.

"The turn lane and then the stimulus funding after that would be taking place in spring 2010," he said.

Pataskala officials would try to make the project as easy on residents as possible, in terms of traffic congestion, he said.

"Our goal is to always minimize the disruption of traffic," Boland said.