The City of Germantown found it is stretching its street paving dollars more this year.

During Monday night's meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, the board approved a $900,000 contract with Standard Construction Co.

In the previous two years, Public Works Director Bo Mills said, the city has averaged re-paving about eight miles of city streets each year. Because the bids came in lower than expected, Mills said, the contract approved by a 5-0 vote should pave 12 miles of the city's 206 miles of streets. The re-paving is expected to be completed within four months.

"It's a good thing developers aren't real busy right now," Alderman Frank Uhlhorn told the board during its executive session before the regular meeting.