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that some of those pedestrian infrastructure funding categories will be increased so we will be seeking grants and are
hopeful that the city will participate and benefit from some of those funds as well.
Alderman Klee
Thank you.
Alderman Comeau
Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mr. Hudson do you have an idea on when this assessment is going to take place and when the
public information meeting might take place?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
We're going to commence sometime in the spring. So this is both the city and NRPC are going to hire an intern for the
summer. So we'll need to hire that person and of course those folks are in college. So we'll commence in the spring and
collect the data through the summer. | would expect to start sharing some information from that study in the fall. This is
kind of a first step in developing an ADA transition plan for the city which identifies all those improvements you need to
make, puts it to a schedule, and those sorts of things. In order to do all that work, you need good inventory up front so
that’s what this is going to be focusing on inventory work.
Alderman Comeau
Thank You.
Alderman Thibeault
Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mr. Hudson so I’m looking at the timeline for this and it looks like final deliverables will be done
June of 2023. So all this work will pretty much as far as assessing will be taking place this year and then there won’t be
anything started until that time or will that stuff be finished by 2023 as far as fixing any sidewalks or?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
We're fixing some pieces out every year. So that will continue. Originally this collection effort was going to be split over
two summers done by NRPC alone, but we really pushed to make sure this all gets done in one year by agreeing to staff
the field work portion of it. So yeah, this will feed into our consideration of future work every year we seek sidewalk
funding and every year we do make improvements. Last year we didn’t do sidewalk segments per se, but we replaced
over 100 ADA ramps in conjunction with a paving program. This is important work to be done. It will conform in our work
going forward, but it’s not like we’re not doing work (inaudible).
Alderman Thibeault
Thank you and it also says the public outreach will be on April 15, 2023 is that set in stone or obviously probably not,
right? Is that’s just the target date or?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Yeah | think the schedule will fluctuate. | know that we are estimating how much time it’s going to take to do the field
work. We are going to walk every piece of sidewalk so that will take time. NRPC thinks that’s going to take quite a bit of
time. I’m hoping that it will go a little bit faster, but we’ll continue to move the project forward and not going to hold back.
So it’s probably can do some of that stuff earlier but this year timeframe is a fair estimate for a side limit of time but I’m
hoping it will be quicker but that’s the estimate.
Alderman Thibeault
Great, thank you. | appreciate the project. Thanks.
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