Fairview Town Council members plan to discuss alternatives to a road-resurfacing process that town staff is recommending to smooth over the town's cracking asphalt roads. Council members at their Tuesday meeting expressed their willingness to schedule a public work session to address the concerns of residents who have complained about loose gravel and increased noise levels along roadways that have been resurfaced using the technique. The chip-sealing process used to resurface town of Fairview roads has been questioned by some residents affected by the technique.[/caption] The process, called chip sealing, resurfaces roads with a combination of gravel and asphalt. Town staff told the council on Tuesday that regular maintenance is especially important for asphalt roads like those seen throughout the residential areas of Fairview. This process can be used to delay expensive reconstruction repairs for years, they said. "It’s critical that we come up some solution that we can live with both financially and aesthetically," Town Manager Julie Couch said. Residents that spoke at Tuesday's meeting were critical of this particular resurfacing technique. Mark Hansen, a Fairview resident, told the council the roads in his neighborhood have undergone the chip-sealing process. Gravel from the surfacing comes loose and lodges in residents' shoes and pets' paws, he said. Traffic passing by on the chip-sealed surface can now be heard indoors, he said. “We don’t mind being the guinea pig for this experiment in road surfacing if it means that this chip-seal process will never be applied to another residential street in our town,” Hansen said. Fairview Mayor Darion Culbertson said he hopes the council can hold a public work session to look at alternative road-maintenance options and make a decision before the end of the year. Many of these neighborhoods do not have sidewalks, he said, and the chip-seal process can undermine their quality as a walking or biking surface. Councilman Ron Samuels reiterated residents' concerns. "I agree, [for] these smaller subdivision streets, it’s probably not an answer," Samuels said of the chip-sealing process. "But I also agree [with town staff that] we’ve got to have an answer."