By Kevin Boneske
Staff Writer
ASHWAUBENON – The village board agreed Tuesday, June 23, to award a $517,908 sidewalk and parking lot improvement contract for this year to Vinton Construction.
Public Works Director Doug Martin said the contract’s three construction projects include: installing sidewalk along the east side of Ridge Road from Valley View to Morris Avenue; installing terrace sidewalk along the north side of Mike McCarthy Way from Holmgren Way to Ashland Avenue; and reconstructing the south parking lot at village hall.
Martin said the three projects were combined into one bid to get a lower overall price with an economy of scale by having something large enough to attract bidders for a full construction season in 2020.
“(We) had good bids on the sidewalk for both Ridge Road and Mike McCarthy Way,” he said. “Those came in… about $25,000 under (budget). The parking lot out back here came in about $90,000 over, and the biggest reason on that (is) the ability to pulverize the parking lot and re-grade it just as is just isn’t there.”
Martin said portions of the parking lot are “pretty bad in some areas.”
“We’re going to have to over-excavate a good portion of the parking lot,” he said.
Martin said two of the 10 prequalified bidders submitted bids with Vinton Construction submitting the low bid.
He said $80,000 was budgeted in Tax Incremental Financing District No. 3 for the Ridge Road sidewalk, while $150,000 was allocated in TIF No. 5 for the Mike McCarthy sidewalk and $250,000 was designated from the general fund/TIF No. 5 for the south village hall parking lot.
Martin said money is available in the village’s building fund to cover some of the overall project bid overage of approximately $65,000.
“We also have a couple of our TIF projects, Vanderperren Way, Mike McCarthy Way, Cormier Road that are coming in” he said. “We’re still closing those projects out. They are coming in under budget that we’ll be able to use some of those funds to cover the shortfall as well.”
Martin said the south village hall parking lot project will include an alternate bid with epoxy pavement marking that lasts longer than paint.
“The parking lot as is right now is roughly 36 stalls,” he said. “With our current design, we’ll be bumping it up to right around 65 to 70.”
Martin said the reconstructed parking lot will have curb and gutter all the way around with new drainage.
He said it would help limit some of the issues with parking on the grass during game days at Capital Credit Union Park.
Martin said the south parking lot project will start the middle of August, which worked out best for the Green Bay Booyah to use some of the parking lot on game days this summer.
He said work on the sidewalk projects will begin in about three weeks.
Road resurfacing
In other action, the board approved a bid of $957,959 from Northeast Asphalt for this year’s road milling and resurfacing, with public works and engineering staff reviewing the street listing for 2020 to meet the budgeted amount of $900,000.
In addition to the 2020 village budget allocating $650,000 for milling and resurfacing, Martin said another $250,000 from the Cormier Road reconstruction TIF project for repaving Collaer Court was held over from last year.
“We delayed this work and put in under our mill/pave contract, because the Cormier Road contract, if you remember, that was a funded project through the state,” he said. “When you get some of the STP (State Transportation Program) urban grant funds through the state, you also have to have state oversight and pay for state oversight on the project. We didn’t want to spend money of our mill/pave work on state oversight, so we pulled that project and put it into this year’s mill/pave program.”
Martin said village staff will need to work with the contractor to trim portions of the milling and repaving to stay within the $900,000 budgeted.
The bid proposal called for 2-inch milling and resurfacing 65,250 square yards in 13 sections of roadway and pulverizing and resurfacing 18,330 square yards in two other road sections.