Steubenville city council took action at their meeting Tuesday night allocating funds towards repaving Johnson Road and to the Beatty Park bridge.

Council called a finance committee meeting that focused on the two projects.

"As Tracy has said before, wants vs needs this road is needed. Beatty Park bridge is less needed than Johnson Road,” said Councilman Willie Paul. "I think we need to put the money towards, as I've said before, infrastructure and that is Johnson Road.”

Then the conversation shifted to the bridge.

"We got $15 million, some of the money no matter what you need for infrastructure still needs to go to some of the other things,” said Councilman Royal Mayo.

After that discussion council unanimously approved $147,800 to go towards the final engineering and permitting for the bridge. The money coming from the city's American Rescue Plan dollars

Council also introduced an ordinance allocating city dollars to repave Johnson Road highlighting the amount of use the road gets and how it serves as a major thoroughfare to a hospital, a nursing home and Catholic Central high school. The cost of the project is expected to come in at around $480,000. They have as an add alternate in the project nearby St. Charles Drive.

City manager Jim Mavromatis gave an update on the Wellesley Avenue Extension repairs after last week's sewer line collapse. In total 110 feet of pipe had to be replaced and the repairs should be done by the beginning of next week.

Council also read a resolution proclaiming this week as Catholic Schools week.