Washington’s City Council won’t be taking it to the streets Monday evening, but it could be talking about streets.

The council’s agenda packet for its meeting Monday includes a memorandum concerning the N.C. Carolina Department of Transportation’s proposal to spend about $3.2 million to improve a section of 15^th Street from Carolina Avenue (U.S. Highway 17 Business) to Pierce Street. That section is about two-thirds of a mile long, according to NCDOT data.

That section of 15^th Street has about three times the number motor-vehicle crashes compared to similar sections of roads across the state, according to NCDOT data.

The proposed project calls for widening that section of 15^th Street from a 48-foot-wide, undivided road to a 64-foot-wide, four-lane divided road with a 16-foot-wide median and 7-foot berms. To address crash concerns, the median will be a channelized, left-turn-only median, according to the memorandum written by City Manager Brian Alligood.

NCDOT wants the council to approve the project’s design in order for the project to continue, according to the memorandum. Sometime in 2014, NCDOT will make a presentation about the proposed project to the council and ask for its formal support of the proposed improvements, reads the memorandum.

NCDOT would pay the entire cost of the project, according to the memorandum.

Alligood and city Public Works Director Allen Lewis met with NCDOT engineers Dwayne Alligood and Haywood Daughtry on Aug. 29 to discuss proposed NCDOT projects in the city, according to the memorandum.

NCDOT is planning to resurface the section of Fifth Street (U.S. Highway 264) from 15^th Street to Hudnell Street at an estimated cost of $2 million and Third Street (N.C. Highway 32) from Bridge Street (U.S. Highway 17 Business) to Washington Park at an estimated cost of $650,000, according to the memorandum.

The council meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Council Chambers in the Municipal Building, 102 E. Second St. To view the council’s agenda for a specific meeting, visit the city’s web­site at www.washingtonnc.gov, click “Government” then “City Council” heading, then click “Meeting Agendas” on the menu to the right. Then click on the date for the appropriate agenda.