Cape Charles budgeted $20,000 to build sidewalks in spots where they are currently missing. 5-10% of the overall total still needs to be built. The Town selected two areas, one near the Pine Street Pump Station lot and also a section on Strawberry Street near Central Park. The Pine Street lot has 100 feet of length on Monroe Ave, and around 140 feet on Pine. There are two handicap cuts on the curbs there. While the work on Pine and Monroe is fairly straight forward, the Strawberry Street location proved to be more challenging. There are 3 utility poles located in the proposed path of the Strawberry Street sidewalk. One pole belongs to ANEC, the other two belong to Verizon. The town has received an estimate from ANEC of $5,328.25 to move their pole. No word has been received from Verizon at this time.
With the Strawberry Street power pole in the way, Public Works Director Dave Fauber suggested to break up the work. “Do the pine street project first, and what other money is left over, start doing these poles. ANEC would remove that pole for around $5000 dollars,” Fauber said.
Steve Bennett, via letter said, “How wide are these sidewalks? I would dare say not more than 4 feet. This pricing is very high for this bid, and why do we have to pay 5000 to move an ANEC utility pole. That also seems like a lot. My inclination is to not award the contract to Browder-Hite”.
Fauber noted that the sidewalks are actually 5 feet wide. [Read more…]