The bid award for the Patten Street Rebuild is delayed to March, following discussion at the Monday, Feb. 10 village board meeting in Boyd.
With six project bids and approval from the Department of Natural Resources as well as the Department of Administration, a construction easement on St. Michael’s Street still awaits final confirmation before the Patten Street Rebuild project can be awarded, with bid award expected in March. All other permits and details have been secured on the longstanding project to rebuild Patten Street as well as St. John’s Street across Center Avenue.
“We have all of our permits secured,” Ayres Associates representative Brian Lambert said. “The trees at the church are being taken down, we got that confirmed. We are looking to submit a construction easement for the extension of the sanitary down at the end of St. Michael.” With roots in the existing sewer line, the hope to extend sanitary through still depends on an easement.
“Other than that everything sits well,” Lambert said. “We just went to get the last confirmation from DNR.”
Also in news from February Village Board at Boyd, the board reviewed an amendment to the Ayres agreement, said amendment to include an onsite person from Ayres to free up village public works from site monitoring on Patten Street, as well as adding Ayres Associates representative Lisa Fleming to keep track of grant administration on the project. The contract amendment with Ayres is for hourly work and will be approved in March.
Total compensation with the amendment for additional services is estimated at $447,000, up from $282,000 previously.
As for department reports from Boyd, Streets and Utilities head Bob LaMarche shared that Haas had performed a well repair, after a plugged line with caustic buildup had to be chiseled clear.
“They had to chisel like pounding on a rock,” LaMarche said of the well repair. Chlorine had been put in and a sample would be taken to Colfax before the well could be up and running.
LaMarche also shared that a general was due to be fixed Tuesday, Feb. 10, while a lab audit for the wastewater plant had gone better than expected.
“I thought it went better than I thought it would,” he said. The plant has had ongoing issues with a diet high in protein and fat resulting in overfeeding the “bugs,” an unofficial name for the microbial bacteria needed to make the wastewater plant run.
“We keep working on trying to get that plant to work better and go from there,” LaMarche said.
Nothing was shared in finance and claims updates.
In the police update, trustee Dales Isaacs shared that the Boyd officer was now helping cover hours for Stanley officer that had gone to part-time, while Trustee Josh Walters shared that the Fire Board for Boyd-Edson-Delmar had met, opting to purchase two used vehicles for a total of $144,000, one squad and one water tender.
“New to us,” Trustee Josh Walters said in describing the purchases.
As for the park, it’s closed for the present.
“Park’s closed,” Walters said for winter activity at Lotz Park.