Butler City Council on Wednesday awarded a $143,623 contract to replace the roofs on the Public Safety Building and the City Building.

Council members unanimously voted to award the contract to Fuller Home Building Inc. of Meadville.

Councilman Jeff Smith said the bids were lower that anticipated.

Four contractors and a representative from the roofing manufacturer attended a prebid meeting and three of those contractors submitted bids, said John Evans, building code official.

He said providing a warranty from the manufacturer was part of the bid requirements to guarantee the quality of the new roofs.

The new roof on the public safety building will cost $110,767 and the City Building roof will cost $32,856.

Evans said the city estimated the costs to be $171,000 for the Public Safety Building and $40,000 for the City Building.

The Public Safety Building roof is original to the building that was built in 1993 and the City Building roof was installed in the 1980s during a renovation project, he said.

Work will begin in three or four weeks after the contract is signed and Fuller posts the required bonds. The contract calls for the work to be completed in 90 days, he said.

In unrelated business, Mayor Ben Smith said he agreed with resident Kyle Fradenburgh who complained about a citation he received for parking on the street in front of his house when the street was going to be cleaned last year.

Fradenburgh said he got the ticket in August the morning after he parked his vehicle near a utility pole where the city posted a sign that prohibited parking because the street was going to be cleaned.

The sign didn't say when the street was going to be cleaned, so he parked there and found a citation on his windshield the next day, he said.

He said he submitted a plea of not guilty and requested a hearing, but he wasn't able to attend the hearing due to his work schedule and was still trying to appeal the ticket.

Ben Smith said he has been cited for the same violation and council would discuss the matter.

“I think it's a valid point,” he said about the lack of dates on street cleaning signs. “It's something we need to clean up.”

Council also forwarded $32,092 in tax revenue to the Butler Public Library.

The tax that funds the library is .50 mills of the overall 43.25 mill real estate tax imposed by the city.