City OKs Alley Project Expenditures
May 23, 2017 at 4:53 p.m.
By David [email protected]
The alley – located between city hall to the north and two businesses to the south – extends about 130 feet and stretches from South Buffalo Street to an intersecting alley to the west. Proposed improvements include seating areas, bike racks, plants, public Wi-Fi, lighting, artwork on the facade and an asphalt walkway including a decorative inlay pattern.
Assistant City Planner Justin Taylor asked the Board of Works to accept the $56,504 raised for the alley project at patronicity.com in pursuit of the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority’s Creating Places grant. He also requested the board accept the IHCDA grant for $50,000, giving the alley project a total of $106,504.
Mayor Joe Thallemer said the IHCDA matching grant was capped at $50,000. After the agreement was approved by the board to accept the funds, Thallemer told Taylor, “Thanks, Justin. You did a marvelous job on that project to get it to where it is now. I very much appreciate the work the planning department did on that, so thank you very much.”
Later in the meeting, Taylor presented a proposal for redoing the asphalt in the alley from Phend & Brown for $12,320. The second proposal was for decorative inlay in the alley by Globe Asphalt Paving, Indianapolis, for $10,631.
The board approved both proposals, with the funds coming from the donations and IHCDA.
In other business, the board:
• Approved an hourly contract with HJ Umbaugh & Associates to complete a fiscal plan for the Airport Industrial Park Annexation.
City Planner Jeremy Skinner said, “The next step is to complete this fiscal plan and then we’ll be able to move forward with the public hearing process to start that annexation.”
He said the fiscal plan is anticipated to be completed within the next couple of months. The public hearing process, which will include six public hearings, then will take six to eight months, so it will be sometime in 2018 when the annexation process is completed.
This morning, Skinner said the annexation area in general is between the current airport and U.S. 30. It includes the whole industrial park, and is about 400 acres. “It’s the area from CR 200N to 250N,” he said, noting the target area may change as the city proceeds with the public hearing process.
The purpose is to provide sanitary sewer services to the industries within the industrial park, as a number of them have been asking for it for the last 10 years, he said.
A public meeting notice was sent out and a public meeting was held in July 2016 to inform people of the status of the annexation plan. A preliminary engineering study has been completed.
• Opened bids for the Eisenhower Basin Phase I project, which includes replacement of existing stormwater management system and installation of pre-construction and post-construction stormwater quality measures. The basin is down by Eisenhower subdivision and Pheasant Ridge.
Bids were received from G&G Excavating and Hauling for $399,149.95 and Atlas Excavating for $474,511. City engineer James Emans said the bid will be awarded at the June 2 Board of Works meeting.
• Awarded the bid for the Center Lake stormwater outfall and control structure improvements project to G&G Excavating and Hauling for $95,623.50, as requested by Utility Manager Brian Davison.
“This is sort of phase two for improvements on the Osborne pump station area, a major pump station that’s down there by the storm water. This is going to do a little dam work and then re-establish the banks where the discharge comes out, essentially,” he said, noting the cost came in slightly under the original engineer’s estimate.
• Approved for Street Superintendent Jeff Beeler to purchase a grapple truck from Trans Chicago Truck Group for $146,632 through National Joint Powers Alliance.
• Accepted the 5-foot drainage easements offered by Daniel and Sue Ann Craig and Steven and Jane Crim along Lydia Street in Patterson Place subdivision.
Emans said there is a storm pipe that lies along the common boundaries of the two lots that the city wasn’t aware of when the subdivision was developed and now it’s having problems.
“To clean up the access, access the pipe and take ownership of it, the homeowners got a hold of us and actually said they’d like to convey easements so we could get the pipe fixed. So what you have in front of you are those easement agreements. They’ve executed them,” Emans said.
• Approved a $25,927.82 voucher for construction and engineering services on the Husky Trail Project to A&Z Engineering LLC, as requested by Skinner. The funds will come out of the Economic Development Income Tax fund.
The project is part of the Indiana Department of Transportation 80/20 matching grant program where the state will reimburse the city 80 percent of its costs.
Skinner said weather permitting, the project is ahead of schedule and phase one may finish before the expected completion date of Aug. 8. If everything moves along as it has been, phase one could be finished by late July and then phase two will start.
• Approved new job descriptions for the Warsaw Police Department as requested by Human Resource Director Jennifer Whitaker and Police Chief Scott Whitaker. Scott was not present at Monday’s meeting due to a family emergency.
• Approved for the Warsaw Police Department to accept $4,000 of the $10,000 grant that was awarded to the Kosciusko County Traffic Safety Partnership for extra traffic enforcement from May 25 to Sept. 30. The money will be used to pay officers overtime to enforce Indiana impaired driving laws. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration provides the federal funds, which is distributed through the Traffic Safety Division of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.
• Approved $705 for the annual software license and maintenance agreement with Boyce Systems for Keystone payroll for July 1 to Oct. 1 as requested by Clerk-Treasurer Lynne Christiansen. She said it was pro-rated for three months to get it aligned with the other contracts the city has with the contractor.
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The alley – located between city hall to the north and two businesses to the south – extends about 130 feet and stretches from South Buffalo Street to an intersecting alley to the west. Proposed improvements include seating areas, bike racks, plants, public Wi-Fi, lighting, artwork on the facade and an asphalt walkway including a decorative inlay pattern.
Assistant City Planner Justin Taylor asked the Board of Works to accept the $56,504 raised for the alley project at patronicity.com in pursuit of the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority’s Creating Places grant. He also requested the board accept the IHCDA grant for $50,000, giving the alley project a total of $106,504.
Mayor Joe Thallemer said the IHCDA matching grant was capped at $50,000. After the agreement was approved by the board to accept the funds, Thallemer told Taylor, “Thanks, Justin. You did a marvelous job on that project to get it to where it is now. I very much appreciate the work the planning department did on that, so thank you very much.”
Later in the meeting, Taylor presented a proposal for redoing the asphalt in the alley from Phend & Brown for $12,320. The second proposal was for decorative inlay in the alley by Globe Asphalt Paving, Indianapolis, for $10,631.
The board approved both proposals, with the funds coming from the donations and IHCDA.
In other business, the board:
• Approved an hourly contract with HJ Umbaugh & Associates to complete a fiscal plan for the Airport Industrial Park Annexation.
City Planner Jeremy Skinner said, “The next step is to complete this fiscal plan and then we’ll be able to move forward with the public hearing process to start that annexation.”
He said the fiscal plan is anticipated to be completed within the next couple of months. The public hearing process, which will include six public hearings, then will take six to eight months, so it will be sometime in 2018 when the annexation process is completed.
This morning, Skinner said the annexation area in general is between the current airport and U.S. 30. It includes the whole industrial park, and is about 400 acres. “It’s the area from CR 200N to 250N,” he said, noting the target area may change as the city proceeds with the public hearing process.
The purpose is to provide sanitary sewer services to the industries within the industrial park, as a number of them have been asking for it for the last 10 years, he said.
A public meeting notice was sent out and a public meeting was held in July 2016 to inform people of the status of the annexation plan. A preliminary engineering study has been completed.
• Opened bids for the Eisenhower Basin Phase I project, which includes replacement of existing stormwater management system and installation of pre-construction and post-construction stormwater quality measures. The basin is down by Eisenhower subdivision and Pheasant Ridge.
Bids were received from G&G Excavating and Hauling for $399,149.95 and Atlas Excavating for $474,511. City engineer James Emans said the bid will be awarded at the June 2 Board of Works meeting.
• Awarded the bid for the Center Lake stormwater outfall and control structure improvements project to G&G Excavating and Hauling for $95,623.50, as requested by Utility Manager Brian Davison.
“This is sort of phase two for improvements on the Osborne pump station area, a major pump station that’s down there by the storm water. This is going to do a little dam work and then re-establish the banks where the discharge comes out, essentially,” he said, noting the cost came in slightly under the original engineer’s estimate.
• Approved for Street Superintendent Jeff Beeler to purchase a grapple truck from Trans Chicago Truck Group for $146,632 through National Joint Powers Alliance.
• Accepted the 5-foot drainage easements offered by Daniel and Sue Ann Craig and Steven and Jane Crim along Lydia Street in Patterson Place subdivision.
Emans said there is a storm pipe that lies along the common boundaries of the two lots that the city wasn’t aware of when the subdivision was developed and now it’s having problems.
“To clean up the access, access the pipe and take ownership of it, the homeowners got a hold of us and actually said they’d like to convey easements so we could get the pipe fixed. So what you have in front of you are those easement agreements. They’ve executed them,” Emans said.
• Approved a $25,927.82 voucher for construction and engineering services on the Husky Trail Project to A&Z Engineering LLC, as requested by Skinner. The funds will come out of the Economic Development Income Tax fund.
The project is part of the Indiana Department of Transportation 80/20 matching grant program where the state will reimburse the city 80 percent of its costs.
Skinner said weather permitting, the project is ahead of schedule and phase one may finish before the expected completion date of Aug. 8. If everything moves along as it has been, phase one could be finished by late July and then phase two will start.
• Approved new job descriptions for the Warsaw Police Department as requested by Human Resource Director Jennifer Whitaker and Police Chief Scott Whitaker. Scott was not present at Monday’s meeting due to a family emergency.
• Approved for the Warsaw Police Department to accept $4,000 of the $10,000 grant that was awarded to the Kosciusko County Traffic Safety Partnership for extra traffic enforcement from May 25 to Sept. 30. The money will be used to pay officers overtime to enforce Indiana impaired driving laws. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration provides the federal funds, which is distributed through the Traffic Safety Division of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.
• Approved $705 for the annual software license and maintenance agreement with Boyce Systems for Keystone payroll for July 1 to Oct. 1 as requested by Clerk-Treasurer Lynne Christiansen. She said it was pro-rated for three months to get it aligned with the other contracts the city has with the contractor.
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