HomeMy WebLinkAbout4.HIKE & BIKE/SAFE ROUTE GRANTCITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
MEMORANDUM:
TO: Steve Fitzgibbons, City Manager
FROM: Leslie E. McMahen, P.E., Director of Public Works
DATE: March 27, 2003
SUB3ECT: Report on Hike and Bike Trail Project and
Safe Routes to Schools Grant
As you recall, we recently bid the Hike and Bike Trail project and received only one
bid which was twice the amount that we' had budgeted for the project. The length
of the project could be further reduced (according to TxDOT) to bring the cost
down, but it would begin to lose its intended benefit.
A decision on what to do with the Hike and Bike Trail project was held pending the
outcome on our Safe Routes to Schools grant request. The latter project was
developed with the Hike and Bike Trail as the "spine" of a network of new sidewalks
to schools adjacent to and along the route of the trail.
Now that we have been turned down on our Safe Routes grant request, we must
return to the decision on what to do about the trail project. The project could be
reduced to the section of Houston to Gilham, or Gilham to Woodworth, and re-bid,
or the funds in the CIP for the trail project could be used to install improvements in
Barbara .Jacket Park as proposed by the Parks Department.
Zf we abandon the Hike and Bike Trail projedc, we will owe TxDOT not less than
$10,600 nor more than $15,000 for work they have put into the project, over the
nine (9) years of its life, since they will not be able to recover these expenses
through the federal funding portion of the. grant for the project.