Students returning home for Easter last weekend may have noticed the addition of non-working stoplights at the intersection of Annie Glidden Road and Taylor Street.

These stoplights are part of a construction project meant to be a temporary solution to ease congestion at the intersection.

The project, which also involves adding 500 feet of left turn lanes either way on Annie Glidden Road, is slated to be completed by the time school resumes in August, said Joel Maurer, assistant city engineer for the DeKalb Public Works Department.

In late April or early May, construction on Miller Avenue will begin. Maurer said the project entails tearing out the street, rebuilding water mains and sanitary sewers and replacing the street.

Beginning in May, several general maintenance overlay projects will begin. Maurer said these projects include repairing curbs and adding an inch and a half to the surface pavement.

Normal Road, between Hillcrest Drive and Greenbrier Road; Ridge Drive, between Rushmore Drive and Blackhawk Road; and Normal Road and Sleepy Hollow Lane are among the streets receiving these repairs. There will be work done on two or three other streets as well, Maurer said.

The general maintenance overlay projects also are scheduled to be complete by August, before the fall semester begins.

This may sound like a lot of construction, but Maurer said this is an average amount. In the end, about $3 million worth of work will have taken place, he said.

A runway expansion at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport also may take place over the summer. The project would expand the primary north/south runway and its taxiway 2,000 feet, said Ralph Tompkins, director of the Public Works Department.

Construction was slated to start Thursday and will relocate a road in preparation for the runway construction.

The runway project is already bid, but is awaiting funding from the Federal Aviation Administration, Tompkins said.

The runway project will cost $3.6 million, 90 percent of which will come from federal dollars. The remaining funding will come from state and city funding, each of which is responsible for 5 percent.

Maurer said several projects are in the preliminary stage, and if approved, are still nine to 12 months off. These include hangar improvements, work on First Street and sidewalk projects.