BOW Awards Buffalo St. Project To Selge For $2.6M
October 7, 2017 at 5:04 a.m.
By David [email protected]
The four bids received were opened in September, with Selge being the lowest bidder, Skinner said.
Along with the plaza near Center Lake, the city is upgrading the lights, curb, gutter and road along the Buffalo Street redevelopment project. Dave Matthews, of Mishawaka, is developing town homes, city homes and mews along the street and a mixed-use structure at the former Indiana American Water Company building.
“We went through everything, and it’s our intent to have the contract ready for Oct. 20 so that we can get moving on this project,” Skinner said.
The city’s portion of the project is a joint effort between the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission and the Warsaw Wastewater Department. It will be paid for from bonds and wastewater funds, according to information from the city.
The RDA is reimbursing approximately $1.6 million of the costs of the city’s portion of the overall project.
Skinner said that infrastructure involves sanitary sewer, stormwater, sidewalks and lights.
“I would imagine a lot of the underground utility work will happen over the next four to five months, with the actual road and sidewalks and that type of work to occur in the spring once the weather starts improving,” he said.
Calling it a transformational project for the city and the downtown, Mayor Joe Thallemer said he was “anxious and gratified to get this thing going.”
In other business, the board:
• Approved a contract with Lochmueller Group for a Market Street cycle track feasibility study and schematic for $57,200.
The proposed cycle track will be located along the south side of Market Street from Columbia Avenue to Hickory Street. It will continue the mixed-use path along Market Street to provide a pedestrian corridor from east to west.
The majority of funds for the study ($50,000) were set aside from the Market Street project. The remaining portion will come from the greenway donations account, according to information from the city.
• Approved a pay application totaling $6,699.48 out of bond funds to American Structurepoint Inc. for ongoing engineering services for the Buffalo Street project, as requested by Skinner on behalf of the Redevelopment Authority.
• Approved a $289,154.19 pay application to G&G Hauling & Excavating for the CR 300N road project out of the Northern Tax Increment Finance funds.
“If you’ve been out there, you’ll notice that they’re putting the asphalt down for the trail. A lot of the lights have been installed, so they’re moving right along,” Skinner said.
• Accepted a $19,628 grant from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation and a $68,237 grant from the K21 Health Foundation for the Warsaw-Wayne Fire Territory to purchase heavy rescue equipment.
Fire Chief Mike Wilson said the grants were applied for in July.
“We are very grateful to the County Community Foundation and the K21 Health Foundation for providing these grants to us,” he said.
The equipment allows workers at accidents involving heavy or large vehicles to be stabilized so emergency services personnel can work and extricate accident victims safely.
• Approved a contract between the stormwater utility and Wihebrink Landscape Management for $5,809.61 to renovate the utility’s rain garden at the treatment plant which is used for educational purposes. Utility Manager Brian Davison said it needs some professional work, though city employees do maintain it.
• Learned the new city website is up at warsaw.in.gov. Thallemer said Communications Director Staci Young did a lot of work before the site went live Thursday night. He said he appreciated all the hard work that was put into it.
“The biggest reason for redesigning it was to make this mobile friendly and responsive. Our old website was not,” Young said.
• Approved an agreement between Indiana-American Water Co. and the city for the city to use the water company’s water usage data.
“This is part of our new metering that will hopefully be approved by the council next week and become our method at the first of the year,” Thallemer said.
The monthly cost to the city per month will be about $575.
• Was updated by Wilson that the fire department took the next step in moving from Basic Non-Transport to Advanced “so that we can provide a better medical coverage to our citizens. When we arrive on scene to a multiple-vehicle accident or confined space technical rescue, our Advanced EMTs will be able to perform the duties that they’ve been trained to do. This is a step with the state to move forward.”
• Approved an agreement with Smarsh for social media archiving. Cost is $500 for set-up and an annual service fee of $2,988. All of the city’s social media will be archived.
• Approved a license with Dito Inc. for GAME email encryption so that any of the city’s email – such as criminal matters or health-related matters from human resources – that goes outside of its domain will be encrypted.
Young said the costs will be covered by the departments using it. The per-license fees to be paid will be $1,435 for the police; $105, aviation; $70, clerk; $70, human resources; and $70 for wastewater collections.
• Approved a parking facility lease with Phillip J. and Maxine Harris for $9,000 per year for two years and Stephen P. and Carla A. Harris for $8,400 per year for two years. Skinner said the agreements have been in place for some time and have not changed.
• Approved an agreement with The Bowling Alley for the city employee Christmas gathering. Estimated cost based on 64 children and 225 adults (based on the 2016 attendance) will be $4,758.60.
• Approved the annual maintenance with American Elevator for $2,228 for the elevator at city hall.
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The four bids received were opened in September, with Selge being the lowest bidder, Skinner said.
Along with the plaza near Center Lake, the city is upgrading the lights, curb, gutter and road along the Buffalo Street redevelopment project. Dave Matthews, of Mishawaka, is developing town homes, city homes and mews along the street and a mixed-use structure at the former Indiana American Water Company building.
“We went through everything, and it’s our intent to have the contract ready for Oct. 20 so that we can get moving on this project,” Skinner said.
The city’s portion of the project is a joint effort between the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission and the Warsaw Wastewater Department. It will be paid for from bonds and wastewater funds, according to information from the city.
The RDA is reimbursing approximately $1.6 million of the costs of the city’s portion of the overall project.
Skinner said that infrastructure involves sanitary sewer, stormwater, sidewalks and lights.
“I would imagine a lot of the underground utility work will happen over the next four to five months, with the actual road and sidewalks and that type of work to occur in the spring once the weather starts improving,” he said.
Calling it a transformational project for the city and the downtown, Mayor Joe Thallemer said he was “anxious and gratified to get this thing going.”
In other business, the board:
• Approved a contract with Lochmueller Group for a Market Street cycle track feasibility study and schematic for $57,200.
The proposed cycle track will be located along the south side of Market Street from Columbia Avenue to Hickory Street. It will continue the mixed-use path along Market Street to provide a pedestrian corridor from east to west.
The majority of funds for the study ($50,000) were set aside from the Market Street project. The remaining portion will come from the greenway donations account, according to information from the city.
• Approved a pay application totaling $6,699.48 out of bond funds to American Structurepoint Inc. for ongoing engineering services for the Buffalo Street project, as requested by Skinner on behalf of the Redevelopment Authority.
• Approved a $289,154.19 pay application to G&G Hauling & Excavating for the CR 300N road project out of the Northern Tax Increment Finance funds.
“If you’ve been out there, you’ll notice that they’re putting the asphalt down for the trail. A lot of the lights have been installed, so they’re moving right along,” Skinner said.
• Accepted a $19,628 grant from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation and a $68,237 grant from the K21 Health Foundation for the Warsaw-Wayne Fire Territory to purchase heavy rescue equipment.
Fire Chief Mike Wilson said the grants were applied for in July.
“We are very grateful to the County Community Foundation and the K21 Health Foundation for providing these grants to us,” he said.
The equipment allows workers at accidents involving heavy or large vehicles to be stabilized so emergency services personnel can work and extricate accident victims safely.
• Approved a contract between the stormwater utility and Wihebrink Landscape Management for $5,809.61 to renovate the utility’s rain garden at the treatment plant which is used for educational purposes. Utility Manager Brian Davison said it needs some professional work, though city employees do maintain it.
• Learned the new city website is up at warsaw.in.gov. Thallemer said Communications Director Staci Young did a lot of work before the site went live Thursday night. He said he appreciated all the hard work that was put into it.
“The biggest reason for redesigning it was to make this mobile friendly and responsive. Our old website was not,” Young said.
• Approved an agreement between Indiana-American Water Co. and the city for the city to use the water company’s water usage data.
“This is part of our new metering that will hopefully be approved by the council next week and become our method at the first of the year,” Thallemer said.
The monthly cost to the city per month will be about $575.
• Was updated by Wilson that the fire department took the next step in moving from Basic Non-Transport to Advanced “so that we can provide a better medical coverage to our citizens. When we arrive on scene to a multiple-vehicle accident or confined space technical rescue, our Advanced EMTs will be able to perform the duties that they’ve been trained to do. This is a step with the state to move forward.”
• Approved an agreement with Smarsh for social media archiving. Cost is $500 for set-up and an annual service fee of $2,988. All of the city’s social media will be archived.
• Approved a license with Dito Inc. for GAME email encryption so that any of the city’s email – such as criminal matters or health-related matters from human resources – that goes outside of its domain will be encrypted.
Young said the costs will be covered by the departments using it. The per-license fees to be paid will be $1,435 for the police; $105, aviation; $70, clerk; $70, human resources; and $70 for wastewater collections.
• Approved a parking facility lease with Phillip J. and Maxine Harris for $9,000 per year for two years and Stephen P. and Carla A. Harris for $8,400 per year for two years. Skinner said the agreements have been in place for some time and have not changed.
• Approved an agreement with The Bowling Alley for the city employee Christmas gathering. Estimated cost based on 64 children and 225 adults (based on the 2016 attendance) will be $4,758.60.
• Approved the annual maintenance with American Elevator for $2,228 for the elevator at city hall.
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