Finance Committee - 9/5/2018 Page 18
This is for the tip downs and other requirements regarding some sidewalks out on Amherst Street and
Somerset?
Ms. Gill
Yes Amherst Street, Somerset and Broad Street.
Mayor Donchess
Because you need to have, again, these tip downs and the textured plate, | don’t the terms as you leave the
sidewalk and go on to the street. So this would help us meet those federal requirements. Now is there
anything else that you think | mis-stated or that should be added?
Ms. Gill
No | think you did great in explaining it. Beside additional grants, the contractor is requesting increased
flagger rate, additional ...
Mayor Donchess
Isn't that the next contract?
Ms. Gill
No, this one, it is included in this one. And then a few traffic loops while they are upgrading the tip downs,
sometimes traffic loops are damaged, so they have to be repaired. So it’s mainly these line items.
Alderman Klee
Yes thank you. I’m definitely all for putting in appropriate sidewalks with the appropriate tip downs and so on.
Do we have do any re-grading of streets to make sure there is no ... the reason | am saying this is | know |
have been a nag to your department for sidewalks and so on on Locke Street and one of the things about
trying to do the tip downs is sometimes you have to regrade the streets so you don’t literally, if you are one
wheels, go sliding into the road.
Ms. Gill
Yes, we are not re-grading the street.
Alderman Klee
| mean the sidewalk, I’m sorry.
Ms. Gill
The street will stay at the same level, we are milling an overlay, so we are adjusting these ramps to existing
street, so we are not raising or lowering it.
Alderman Laws
| can’t imagine you are going to find much opposition to this but just for the sake of it, as | understand it, if we
don’t have the ADA compliance we lose our eligibility for the DOT funds, correct?
