$a) THE CITY OF NASHUA “The Gate City”
Division of Public Works
Administration Department
From:
B. Motion:
Discussion:
Board of Public Works Date: January 20, 2022
Daniel Hudson, P.E., City Engineer
Engineering Department
Contract — Veterans’ Memorial Parkway (Formerly Broad Street Parkway)
Interpretive Historic Sign Contract
To approve the award of a contract for Interpretive Historic Signs to Preservation
Company of Kensington, NH in an amount not to exceed $35,731. Funding will be
through Department: 160 Admin/Engineering; Fund: Bond: Activity: Broad Street
Parkway.
In order to gain approval to use federal funds for the Broad Street Parkway project,
the City committed to installing two interpretive signs. With installation of these
signs, the program for mitigating project impacts to historic resources will be
complete. One sign will be installed adjacent the canal and the other will be
installed within Park Social at Labine.
During the project, the City contracted with Richard Casella of the Historic
Documentation Company to perform most of the other historic resource mitigation
tasks. Mr. Casella’s firm has downsized and no longer provides services related to
similar interpretive signs. Mr. Casella strongly recommended that the City contract
with The Preservation Company for this specialty task.
Lynne Monroe of the Preservation Company has a strong reputation within the
industry for similar work and is well known to the New Hampshire Department of
Historic Resources (NHDHR) as well as the New Hampshire Department of
Transportation (NHDOT). Her expertise and strong working relationships will be
important in successfully completing this work.
Ms. Monroe and her staff will work with the City, NHDHR and NHDOT to develop
the design of the signs and gain concurrence with reviewing authorities. She will
work with an experienced vender to have the sign fabricated and installed.
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