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A contract with Herceg and Associates to study the Parker Street - Center Street - Argonne Road intersection was approved by the Warsaw Board of Works Friday. The $15,000 agreement calls for the city to provide Herceg engineers with existing traffic counts and turning movements at the intersection, future traffic projections, accident records, copies of aerial photography for the area and other pertinent records.
In return Herceg will prepare a draft of the intersection, where Walgreen's has proposed to build a new store. Plans call for one stop light at that corner, with an angled cut to the southwest corner of Argonne Road.
The Walgreens project has had one official hearing at the Warsaw Board of Zoning appeals. Board members tabled the item in April pending the outcome of a traffic study and engineered design of the new intersection.
BOW members approved a $3,000 gift to the Warsaw Community Development Corp. toward the fireworks display lit from the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds the evening of July 5. The funds come from the parks department budget.
This year there will be a $3 charge per carload to enter the fairgrounds with $1 going to the WCDC, $1 to the fair board and $1 to Warsaw Booster Club for boys basketball.
Contracts with Hoosier 103, WAWC in the amount of $600; Whatzup Entertainment for $600.75; and Q101, WLZQ for $1,650 to advertise the Classic Rock Concert June 20 were approved also. Parks superintendent Jon Garber said the funds come from donations.
The fire department was given permission to take the 1912 American La France fire truck to the Hoosier Burn Camp in the Lafayette area. The camp is held for children who have received burn injuries in Indiana. The truck will be driven down May 28.
In other business the board:
• Made a scheduled payment to Indiana Construction Corp./Corporate Construction Inc. A Joint Venture in the amount of $690,854. The two firms are working on construction of the second wastewater treatment plant. Escrow principal also was released to the company in the amount of $8,811.
• A payment of $1,500 to Lake City Bank, as escrow agent for the refinancing of several bonds, was approved.
• Approved Cripe Construction to install sanitary sewer facilities at the Gatke site. Cripe's bid was $16,404. Kelcon LLC offered a bid of $25,000 for the project.
• Approved travel requests as presented by Joe Hawn, Terry Poulson, Ernie Wiggins, Elaine Call and Kerry Stogsdill.
• Approved a three-day, unpaid leave for Steve Hartman to visit his son stationed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
• Approved new hires for the parks department - Michael Jenks, Cory Gackenheimer, Thaddeum Wallin and Jesse Felger; for the police department - Alex Calhoun and Trenton Shively; Loeta Malcolm for the sewage department; Sarah McSherry at the sewage collection office and Ryan Thomas for the street department.
Board of works members are Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins and councilman Jerry Patterson. Councilman Charlie Smith was absent.
