Finance Committee - 04/21/2021 Page 3
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Millyard Dog Park Feasibility Study in the amount of $49,683 funded from accounts 53142 Consulting Services
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD THE
CONTRACT FOR THE MILLYARD DOG PARK FEASIBILITY STUDY TO IRONWOOD-HOYLE, TANNER &
ASSOCIATES IN THE AMOUNT OF $49,683 WHICH INCLUDES THE COST OF A PRIVATE UTILITY
LOCATOR. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENT: 181 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; FUND:
53142 CONSULTING SERVICES/FY21 ESCROW FUNDS, BY ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Now is it Julie or Tim who is here on this?
Julie Chizmas
| am here Mayor.
Mayor Donchess
OK Julie Chizmas, please go ahead.
Ms. Chizmas
Hi, thank you so much for having us on your agenda tonight. | am here to discuss the contract of the Mill Yard
Dog Park feasibility study. | siton the Animal & Dog Park Advisory Committee, Alderwoman Klee also sits on
that Committee, who is here with us this evening. This study is a result of the efforts of that Committee to find
a location to construct and operate a downtown dog park. We have identified a lot, Lot 77-5 and just want to
know if this is feasible from an environmental point of view, an operations point of view, funding point of view.
So that’s why we are here this evening.
Mayor Donchess
Alderwoman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you Mr. Mayor. | do want to add to this, it says it includes the cost of the private utility locator and Ms.
Chizmas if | am wrong on this, please feel free to correct me. But the reason for that was because there is a
large, | don’t want to call it a utility pole, but it is for one of the radio stations. And underneath the ground is a
gridwork of wiring. What this will do is it will tell us exactly where their wiring is so that if we do put up a fence,
we miss all of that. We don’t disconnect them, we don’t put anybody into harm’s way. It will also tell us how
far down that is so that if a dog were to dig, because this grid does go quite a distance out. So all Ms. Chizmas
has done all of her homework incredibly so, as usual, and it is amazing to find out all the different things. But
this is also very — a flood plain area — | think is what it is called. So we are going to check the feasibility as to
whether or not this would be able to be used all year round. Are there going to be certain limitations to it. And
we don’t want to hurt the environment because it does go along the Nashua River there and so on. So that’s
what this feasibility study will do, not just can we put it there and will everybody be happy, but whether or not
the ground can take it, what we would have to do in order to make it feasible or to be able to work and so on.
Do | have that correct, Ms. Chizmas?
