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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK
<br /> We pooled together many members of the team. As you can see, in that picture, you really can tell
<br /> but there are a lot of leaves and debris. What you didn't see before was, in that bottom left-hand
<br /> corner picture was the sidewalk which was completely covered prior to this project. Sue Ellen did
<br /> a quick quote on this. She pooled together different members of the City including the N.E.A.T.
<br /> Team, the Sewer Team, the Forester, and was really able to get a nice project completed in a very
<br /> short period of time. I think, all in all, it was about two (2) weeks of work. In our last rain, we
<br /> received no real water sitting on the street. I believe a resident of this area wrote in the South Bend
<br /> Tribune's Voice of the People section, thanking Councilmember Scott and Sue Ellen on this. So,
<br /> that was a very nice project. The West Side Quiet Zones, we are working still to establish our
<br /> silencing of the trains on the west side. We've done some work along a few crossings on the
<br /> Northfolk/Southern Corridor.We've done pavement markings and signage and Grandview,Meade
<br /> and Olive. So, we have some challenges with the railroad. As part of our notice to the railroad,
<br /> they came back and said they needed to make some programming updates at Meade Crossing. We
<br /> just entered into a construction agreement with them and they are doing around $2,000 worth of
<br /> work to update that crossing signal. So,they are moving that forward but we don't have a time line
<br /> from them but hopefully it is soon.
<br /> She continued, Alright, so now I will talk about some projects that are getting ready to be bid out.
<br /> Of course, the 2019 Curb and Sidewalk Program, we have a budget of$500,000 to facilitate that
<br /> as well as your Council allocation program. The Michigan Street Improvement Project, we expect
<br /> to open bids for this at the end of the month. This is estimated to be about $1.8 million. You've
<br /> got pavement reconstruction from Western to Colfax. We are also updating our parking to sixty
<br /> (60)degree angle parking.We are also replacing the lighting in that southern section from Western
<br /> to Wayne. That last section is where we have some lighting that hasn't functioned in a while. The
<br /> 2019 Community Crossing Project,as mentioned earlier,received a grant from INDOT. It provides
<br /> for fifty-fifty (50/50) funding, so with our budgeted match of$600,000, we received $600,000
<br /> from INDOT. So, we will be paving another $1.2 million worth of roads with this available
<br /> funding. There are a couple exceptions we can do here with a contractor under maintenance of
<br /> traffic. Actually, along Jefferson we will be doing some striping there for the continuation of the
<br /> bicycle lane. We also have some additional money budgeted for outsourced paving as well this
<br /> year. It is our hope to apply again for another$400,000. The program can provide up to $1 million
<br /> annually. So,if we can leverage another$400,000 worth of paving,we will double that and would
<br /> then be able to do $800,000 worth of work once more. But that is going to be in the fall. Western
<br /> Avenue is in phase three (3). So, we will continue moving to the west from our previous phases,
<br /> Falcon Street to Dundee Street. We will have some storm sewer separation here and some new
<br /> water mains. There are quite a few underground infrastructure improvements as well as the new
<br /> concrete overlay. This is coming in at a pretty high estimate, so, we will receive bids for this
<br /> starting at the end of May. The Bendix Drive Reconstruction, we've talked about this a few times.
<br /> This should be in the fall, September, by INDOT. It is an INDOT LPA Project, so, eighty-twenty
<br /> (80/20) funding. We will see a new concrete three (3) lane section and the reconfiguration of the
<br /> Nimtz Parkway intersection. We will do this construction in two (2) phases. We will do the work
<br /> north of Boland and then the work south of Boland separately. When we do the work north of
<br /> Boland, the County will also be working on the bridge and will be replacing the pavement of the
<br /> south-bound bridge. That will actually be in the spring.
<br /> She went on, There are some other projects that are under design still. Traffic Signal inventory,
<br /> this is a really much needed project we undertook this spring to inventory all of our signals in the
<br /> City and make sure all of the data can capture things such as ADA improvements, the timing and
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