Redevelopment panel gets ball rolling on engineering for annexation area sewer design
December 5, 2017 at 7:25 p.m.
To get the engineering started for the sanitary sewer extension out to the Airport Industrial Park annexation area, the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission Monday approved a transfer of funds and an engineering agreement for sanitary sewer design.
City Planner Jeremy Skinner requested a total of $290,000 be transferred within the Northern Tax Increment Finance district’s 2017 budget for an engineering contract for the annexation area’s sanitary sewer. The commission unanimously approved the ordinance to transfer the money.
The first of six public hearings on the industrial park annexation was held following the Redevelopment Commission meeting. The area the city is looking at annexing is between the north/south railroad and CR 100E and CR 250N south to about CR 200N.
The agreement for engineering services for sanitary sewer extension to the industrial park annexation area is with Wessler Engineering Inc. for an amount not to exceed $296,000.
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The engineering will happen as the annexation process is underway, Skinner said. The annexation ordinance will be considered in January or February, and could be approved in March or April. After an 180-day remonstration period, Skinner said the earliest the annexation area will take effect will be in September or October.
“The goal is that the engineering will be completed. We will extend the TIF district. There will be a bond. And based on that engineering, we’ll have to engineer it and bid out the project, and that project bid will give us the price, which will be the bond, and then we’ll start construction on the actual sanitary sewer in 2019. That’s the schedule,” he said.
Skinner said the sanitary sewer plan has to be engineered and done regardless of the final size of the annexed area. “Even if we only take in half of that industrial park, the main trunk line is what we’re engineering, and that main trunk line is being designed to have to pass and even serve hundreds of acres that are not even in this annexation. ... The engineering that we’re doing is a lot bigger picture than just the annexation alone in itself.”
Thallemer said the upside to extending sewer out there is the creation of more opportunity.
An early cost estimate for the extension of the sanitary sewer is about $7.3 million.
In another matter, only one bid was received for the six signs at the Warsaw Tech Park, which the Board of Public Works and Safety opened on Friday. The Redevelopment Commission awarded the bid for $356,390 to Graycraft Signs Plus of Warsaw. The commission also approved to allow Skinner to sign the contract for the signs once the contract arrives so 2017 money can be used to pay for the signs.
Commission member George Clemens said, “It sounded like a lot of money for signage, but it’s some massive signage.”
The board also approved a number of claims, including: $227,731.46 and $114,865.27 to G & G Hauling & Excavating for work on the CR 300N trail and road project, including a change order the board also approved; $112 to Times-Union for Warsaw Tech Park sign bids advertisement; $58,471.88 to Regions Bank for a Warsaw Commons project bond payment; $18,712.50 and $90,497.50 to Huntington Bank for Winona PVD bond payments; $142,292.50 to Huntington Trust for Winona PVD bond payment; $115,200 to Medtronic Asset Management for Warsaw Economic Development bond payment; $600,000 to City of Warsaw for monies obligated to the wastewater department from the Northern TIF; $1,157.46 to Barnes & Thornburg LLP for legal services through Oct. 31; $2,099.40 to American Structurepoint for Buffalo Street reconstruction engineering services; and $18,633.90 to Clounie Landscaping for the Indiana and Center streets sidewalk improvements, which are now complete.
Meeting dates and time for the commission for 2018 were approved as 4 p.m. Jan. 8, Feb. 5, March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, Aug. 6, Sept. 10, Oct. 1, Nov. 5 and Dec. 3.
To get the engineering started for the sanitary sewer extension out to the Airport Industrial Park annexation area, the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission Monday approved a transfer of funds and an engineering agreement for sanitary sewer design.
City Planner Jeremy Skinner requested a total of $290,000 be transferred within the Northern Tax Increment Finance district’s 2017 budget for an engineering contract for the annexation area’s sanitary sewer. The commission unanimously approved the ordinance to transfer the money.
The first of six public hearings on the industrial park annexation was held following the Redevelopment Commission meeting. The area the city is looking at annexing is between the north/south railroad and CR 100E and CR 250N south to about CR 200N.
The agreement for engineering services for sanitary sewer extension to the industrial park annexation area is with Wessler Engineering Inc. for an amount not to exceed $296,000.
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The engineering will happen as the annexation process is underway, Skinner said. The annexation ordinance will be considered in January or February, and could be approved in March or April. After an 180-day remonstration period, Skinner said the earliest the annexation area will take effect will be in September or October.
“The goal is that the engineering will be completed. We will extend the TIF district. There will be a bond. And based on that engineering, we’ll have to engineer it and bid out the project, and that project bid will give us the price, which will be the bond, and then we’ll start construction on the actual sanitary sewer in 2019. That’s the schedule,” he said.
Skinner said the sanitary sewer plan has to be engineered and done regardless of the final size of the annexed area. “Even if we only take in half of that industrial park, the main trunk line is what we’re engineering, and that main trunk line is being designed to have to pass and even serve hundreds of acres that are not even in this annexation. ... The engineering that we’re doing is a lot bigger picture than just the annexation alone in itself.”
Thallemer said the upside to extending sewer out there is the creation of more opportunity.
An early cost estimate for the extension of the sanitary sewer is about $7.3 million.
In another matter, only one bid was received for the six signs at the Warsaw Tech Park, which the Board of Public Works and Safety opened on Friday. The Redevelopment Commission awarded the bid for $356,390 to Graycraft Signs Plus of Warsaw. The commission also approved to allow Skinner to sign the contract for the signs once the contract arrives so 2017 money can be used to pay for the signs.
Commission member George Clemens said, “It sounded like a lot of money for signage, but it’s some massive signage.”
The board also approved a number of claims, including: $227,731.46 and $114,865.27 to G & G Hauling & Excavating for work on the CR 300N trail and road project, including a change order the board also approved; $112 to Times-Union for Warsaw Tech Park sign bids advertisement; $58,471.88 to Regions Bank for a Warsaw Commons project bond payment; $18,712.50 and $90,497.50 to Huntington Bank for Winona PVD bond payments; $142,292.50 to Huntington Trust for Winona PVD bond payment; $115,200 to Medtronic Asset Management for Warsaw Economic Development bond payment; $600,000 to City of Warsaw for monies obligated to the wastewater department from the Northern TIF; $1,157.46 to Barnes & Thornburg LLP for legal services through Oct. 31; $2,099.40 to American Structurepoint for Buffalo Street reconstruction engineering services; and $18,633.90 to Clounie Landscaping for the Indiana and Center streets sidewalk improvements, which are now complete.
Meeting dates and time for the commission for 2018 were approved as 4 p.m. Jan. 8, Feb. 5, March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, Aug. 6, Sept. 10, Oct. 1, Nov. 5 and Dec. 3.