Alleyway to Doc's Stadium. Photo by Coltrane Carlson-Raccoon Valley Radio
The engineering firm with the City of Jefferson will be busy preparing a couple of reports of some projects.
One of those projects is repairing the east alleyway on the downtown square. City Administrator Scott Peterson says the Council approved Bolton and Menk to provide services for the scope of the project for the enclosed alleyway with Doc’s Stadium. He talks about some of the details associated with the issues that are happening.
“It’s got a concrete surface on it but the surface has cracked and buckled over time. It does just need to be attended to. So we’ve been working with Doc’s Stadium on some building improvements, and he (the owner) has been doing some roofing and that type of stuff for improvements to the building and now is a really good time to take a look getting that alley fixed up too.”
Peterson notes that the cost for the engineering services is $16,000 and the estimate for the project is $65,000. He explains that it was decided that this project would be bid as an alternate with the Westwood Drive sidewalk project, due to having some leftover capacity of what was authorized for a bond to pay for that project.
The other project is an inspection of the city’s water tower. Peterson points out that the last inspection was done in 2023 by Maguire, who provided not only a report but also ways to pay to correct those. He states that the Council approved a dis-interested third party, Bolton and Menk, to do another inspection of everything, as he talks about why this was needed, ahead of knowing that an overall painting project is looming for the tower.
“What this is really going to help us define is what the time schedule should be for that. Does that need to be done here within the next year or would it be two and three years further on down the line. In which case, we would look at some additional work.”
Peterson says the additional work that could happen to possibly delay the over $1 million painting project would be to clean the components of the tower. The cost that the Council approved for the inspection was $6,500.