Years of Promotion Effort Starts to Pay Off in Wisconsin

"Sometimes it is hard to do this job because it takes so long to make headway, but we have a promotion success in the city of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It has taken 2-3 years to get them to build a concrete street and patience has paid off," said Kevin McMullen, president of NRMCA state affiliate member Wisconsin Concrete Pavement Association (WCPA).

"The city of Stevens Point had not constructed a concrete street in over 25 years, nor did it have any competitive bids for its asphalt paving the past 10 years, awarding all the work to a single bidder," continued McMullen.

All that has now changed with the efforts of the WCPA working with the mayor of Stevens Point, the city engineer and the director of public works. And the successful conclusion (or beginning as it might be) it is all captured on video about 1.5 minutes into or at Agenda Item #3, reports NRMCA Senior National Resource Director Jon Hansen (note the great comments the mayor makes in the video).

"The mayor, Andrew Halverson, introduced the motion and used the opportunity to praise the concrete bid and publicly commit to building more streets with concrete. Which makes me wonder if Mayor Halverson is someone your city mayor should be talking to if you are having trouble getting concrete SLR in your community," Hansen concluded.