Finance Committee - 5/16/2018 Page 11
Alderman Klee
Thank you | just have one more question. Where it connects the Mine Falls to the trail like you said that comes
in behind here and then hope to someday continue all the way up to Crown Hill and so on, this kind of makes
that full connection from Mine Falls all the way through.
Ms. Marchant
Absolutely right yes. | was here last night for this next half the new grant we got to do the next half.
Alderman Klee
This is wonderful. Thank you.
Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright
Do you have any idea when you think might start?
Ms. Marchant
| would love to tell you that, | need the construction contract which | will be back before you with, hopefully in
not too long, to tell you that. At this point, construction would be later this summer with a goal to have it
finished before the freeze/thaw this year. It ultimately depends on the construction contract.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Engineering Services for Improvements to the Greeley Park Boat Ramp (Value $79,984)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $79,984. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN
DEPARTMENT 181, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION GRANT FUND
Mayor Donchess
Ms. Marchant do you want to explain this one?
Ms. Marchant
Sure. This is another grant project that has largely been by Madeleine Mineau the Waterways Manager in
partnership with Public Works, Parks & Recreation and also the Fire Department. This was something that
was on hold for a long time because of the railroad crossing. Madeleine with corporation counsel Bolton got a
determination from NHDOT that the railroad crossing is public and so that we can upgrade this boat ramp.
And because of that, we were eligible for grant funding which is paying for a large part of this half of the
project. So this is to upgrade the access road and boat ramp at Greeley Park which is our only emergency
access to the Merrimack River in the City.
So this is for the engineering for permitting of design of that project. Trying to keep costs down and keep as
many dollars as we can for the actual construction and especially the access road, at this point, kind of a wind-
about road. One of the big priorities for fire and emergency services is to make it much more direct. We also
think that we will have the benefit of reducing the amount of dumping and maybe behavior that we would not
like to see down there. We are trying to save as much of that, DPW has stepped up and they are going to
partner with Stantec and kind of do some of the parts of this to reduce costs overall. We do recommend
Stantec at this time for the engineering bid.
