BOW Approves Greenway Trail Cost Share Agreement
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
Tim Dombrosky, assistant city planner, shared the plan during Friday’s meeting.
The project is to build a trail on the south side of Winona Avenue from Grant Street to Argonne Road for walkers and families, and on-street bike lanes for cyclists.
The trail will connect to the Heritage Trail on the east side of Winona Avenue and Smith Street on the west. The bike lanes will continue to Grant Street on the west and turn south to connect with Smith Street.
The project will include some widening of Winona Avenue on the north and reconstruction on the south side of Winona Avenue as well as traffic markings, signage and utility relocation.
Winona Lake Redevelopment Commission let bids and will contract the project with Phend & Brown Inc. for $215,910.50.
Craig Allebach, Winona Lake town coordinator, attended Friday’s meeting and said the project will begin and be completed this month.
Joe Thallemer, Warsaw mayor, thanked Winona Lake for partnering with the city for the cost share agreement and the Warsaw-Winona Lake Bike-Walk Advisory Committee.
“This is a project with true collaboration and cost sharing, and I truly appreciate the spirit of cooperation with the comprehensive bike and pedestrian plan we have,” Thallemer said. “This is a really important project to get Heritage Trail connected to the Krebs Trailhead Park and to get down to Smith Street that was done last year with bike lanes.”
Thallemer said this will be a great connection link for the trail system and he thanked Winona Lake for taking the lead in the engineering portion of the project.
Warsaw has been given an estimate for work to be done in the city limits of $107,224.
The funds for the project will be appropriated from the cumulative capital improvements fund, which has $65,000 for bicycle and pedestrian projects this year and next.
Winona Lake will pay for the contract, but Warsaw will reimburse the town for the construction costs attributed to the project.
Warsaw will provide at its expense engineering and construction management that it desires for the portion of the construction of the greenway within its jurisdiction.
The agreement also states it is understood that Warsaw may need additional time to gather the funds to reimburse Winona Lake for the amounts owed by Warsaw and Winona Lake for the greenway project.
Warsaw will have two years from Friday to pay the amount owed to Winona Lake.
In other business, the board approved leasing the boat ramp at Pike Lake to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
After several complaints about the boat ramp at the lake being too short, causing washouts and damage to trailers, a meeting with the Pike Lake Association and DNR was planned.
Bill Seegers, representing the DNR, suggested the city lease the boat ramp and adjacent parking area to the DNR.
By doing this lease, federal funding can be obtained by the DNR to install a pre-fabricated ramp and handicapped-accessible floating pier. The upgrades would cost $40,000 to $50,000 to install.
By leasing the land to the DNR, the city would not be responsible for the cost of the upgrades or any maintenance that would need to be done in the lease time frame.
The board also approved an agreement for property owners of apartments to receive wastewater bills instead of tenants, and property owners will pay the wastewater bills.
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Tim Dombrosky, assistant city planner, shared the plan during Friday’s meeting.
The project is to build a trail on the south side of Winona Avenue from Grant Street to Argonne Road for walkers and families, and on-street bike lanes for cyclists.
The trail will connect to the Heritage Trail on the east side of Winona Avenue and Smith Street on the west. The bike lanes will continue to Grant Street on the west and turn south to connect with Smith Street.
The project will include some widening of Winona Avenue on the north and reconstruction on the south side of Winona Avenue as well as traffic markings, signage and utility relocation.
Winona Lake Redevelopment Commission let bids and will contract the project with Phend & Brown Inc. for $215,910.50.
Craig Allebach, Winona Lake town coordinator, attended Friday’s meeting and said the project will begin and be completed this month.
Joe Thallemer, Warsaw mayor, thanked Winona Lake for partnering with the city for the cost share agreement and the Warsaw-Winona Lake Bike-Walk Advisory Committee.
“This is a project with true collaboration and cost sharing, and I truly appreciate the spirit of cooperation with the comprehensive bike and pedestrian plan we have,” Thallemer said. “This is a really important project to get Heritage Trail connected to the Krebs Trailhead Park and to get down to Smith Street that was done last year with bike lanes.”
Thallemer said this will be a great connection link for the trail system and he thanked Winona Lake for taking the lead in the engineering portion of the project.
Warsaw has been given an estimate for work to be done in the city limits of $107,224.
The funds for the project will be appropriated from the cumulative capital improvements fund, which has $65,000 for bicycle and pedestrian projects this year and next.
Winona Lake will pay for the contract, but Warsaw will reimburse the town for the construction costs attributed to the project.
Warsaw will provide at its expense engineering and construction management that it desires for the portion of the construction of the greenway within its jurisdiction.
The agreement also states it is understood that Warsaw may need additional time to gather the funds to reimburse Winona Lake for the amounts owed by Warsaw and Winona Lake for the greenway project.
Warsaw will have two years from Friday to pay the amount owed to Winona Lake.
In other business, the board approved leasing the boat ramp at Pike Lake to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
After several complaints about the boat ramp at the lake being too short, causing washouts and damage to trailers, a meeting with the Pike Lake Association and DNR was planned.
Bill Seegers, representing the DNR, suggested the city lease the boat ramp and adjacent parking area to the DNR.
By doing this lease, federal funding can be obtained by the DNR to install a pre-fabricated ramp and handicapped-accessible floating pier. The upgrades would cost $40,000 to $50,000 to install.
By leasing the land to the DNR, the city would not be responsible for the cost of the upgrades or any maintenance that would need to be done in the lease time frame.
The board also approved an agreement for property owners of apartments to receive wastewater bills instead of tenants, and property owners will pay the wastewater bills.
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