With winter soon gone and road construction season to follow, the Stanley Common Council heard Monday, March 20 from Lisa Fleming of Ayres Associates on two road projects, one extending Pine Street and the other pertaining to Second Avenue.
Speaking to a full house in terms of the …
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With winter soon gone and road construction season to follow, the Stanley Common Council heard Monday, March 20 from Lisa Fleming of Ayres Associates on a
Speaking to a full house in terms of the Council, the 6 p.m. meeting of the Committee of the Whole laid things out, moving on to Council recommendation at 7 p.m. Fleming gave the project update from Ayres, starting with water.
“The water systems study is still being worked on,” she said. “We expect to have a draft report hear pretty quick.” Asking for questions, Fleming went on. “The Pine Street Extension, we actually got a permit from the DNR, we’re still waiting on the Army Corps.” With no problem foreseen on final grant approval, it was into project amendments.
“We didn’t have the process in our initial scope because we thought it was permitted,” Fleming said. “Well it turns out it wasn’t.” Asking for an additional $18,000 for a $56,000 total in regards to the extension of Pine Street Fleming got it, though not before questions.
“So to make a long story short there Lisa it costs an extra $18,000 for the DNR, for the permit to go across that waterway?” Mayor Al Haas asked, while Alderwoman Holly Kitchell clarified. “So the street will go where it was originally planned to go?”
In the word, yes.
“It’s cheaper than buying wetland,” Fleming shared of the acquisition process. The Pine Street Extension is being built to connect with a business expected this fall, while the initial cost of the road extension is hoped to bring dividends in providing a street for other businesses to locate on as well, moving forward.
Passing the Committee of the whole to be approved by the Council in regular session, the next street update came with regard to Second Avenue. The city is looking to re-do Second Avenue from North Franklin to Dahl Street, but needed to jump through a few hoops before it could get a matching grant to help pay for things, the total project expected to cost in the neighborhood of $6154,000.
The hoops to jump through grant wise included a series os resolutions effectively stating the city would follow the 1974 federal Housing and Urban Development practice with regard to anti-displacement and relocation for affected residents, as well as stipulating the non-use of excessive force with regard to non-violent civil rights demonstrations. Also included to qualify for the CDBG Grant process was creation of a citizenship participation committee, to include the mayor, a council member, and clerk Shauntia Hale.
“The city did these in 2019 but they changed the wording so now they need to be done agin,” Fleming shared of the required resolutions to move forward with the grant process on Second Avenue.
