Last week was a good week for Birmingham Sealcoat.

In a 5-0 vote by the Oxford Township Board, the Oxford-based company was awarded a $163,223 contract to make repairs to the community’s safety path network and pave gravel roads in two of its cemeteries.

The project includes making 42 repairs to portions of safety path located along M-24, Drahner Rd., Market St., Lakeville Rd., Seymour Lake Rd. and Waterstone Drive.

It also includes paving two gravel cemetery roads, one in North Oxford Cemetery along N. Oxford Rd. and one in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery along N. Baldwin Rd.

Birmingham Sealcoat will do the safety path repairs for $109,313 and the cemetery paving for $53,910.

Four bids were submitted for the project.

Birmingham Sealcoat was the low bidder.

The highest bid was $277,951 from WCI Contractors.

In between were a $254,677 bid from Audia Concrete Construction and a $233,650 bid from Pavex Corporation.

Birmingham Sealcoat was recommended by township engineer Jim Sharpe. “All the references (provided by the company) indicated that the work performed under contract was completed satisfactorily and that they would recommend the contractor again should they be the low bidder on another one of their projects,” he wrote in a March 30 letter to township officials.