Gardiner School Sidewalk Project

Funds from the original Montana's Safe Routes to School application were originally intended to  be used to construct a concrete, curbed sidewalk, spanning +/- 940 linear feet and 6 feet wide, along Stone Street. The project will also include gutters and a +/- 240 linear feet storm sewer and a +/- 130 linear feet concrete retaining wall with a chain link fence. The retaining wall and chain link fence were to be placed in an area where there is a steep slope and safety is a big concern. The project would  have required preliminary and construction engineering, earthwork, demolition, repair of sections of the road with asphalt, traffic control, and mobilization. Utility relocation would  not have  been necessary.

Several public meetings have been held including:

Recently, because of the escalating cost of the project from the original estimate of $161,905 to over $400,000, additional alternatives are being examined.  The alternative route currently being looked at goes along the north side of  Stone Street near its intersection with Second Street, west one block to Third Street, north for one block on Third Street and then west along Spring Street to the western side of the school yard.   Meetings are now being scheduled with school officials in Gardiner to discuss this as an option and, if agreed upon, approval from Federal and State funding sources will be sought.  Following these permissions, it is expected that an engineering firm will be retained to prepare the necessary plans for the alternative route.

 

 

PROJECT UPDATES

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• 04-JUN-2010

  Departmental staff met with Gardiner Superintendant of Schools Leland Stocker in Gardiner on June 4th discuss the sidewalk project and methods of how the County Commissioners and the school district can share ideas and resources. The options that were discussed included:

  1. Re-route the sidewalk down Stone Street, down Third to Spring, and West along Spring to the school.

  2. Stay with the plan of routing the sidewalk along the north side of Stone Street.

  3. Route the sidewalk along the South side of Stone Street.

  4. To build no sidewalk at this time.

  It was agreed that the option of building along the north side of Stone Street, as presently designed, is not financially feasible and that the Stone-Third-Spring Streets option would probably not be used by students.

• 17-JUN-2010

  County Commissioners are scheduled to meet on 18-JUN-2010 to discuss and decide on the County's continuing role, if any, in the project. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. in the Commissioners' Chambers.

• 18-JUN-2010

  The County Commissioners directed the Community Development Department to investigate the feasibility of the original sidewalk proposal and report back to them within 30 days. The report is also to provide the Commissioners with information as to any necessary variations in the original project design to determine if there ways to update the original design and to make it more feasible. It was also felt that the Stone-Third-Spring Streets alternative route and the current route along the north side of Stone Street was impractical or too expensive, respectively.

• 2-JUL-2010

  On July 8th at 9:30 a.m. The County Commissions will discuss the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of the original sidewalk design route along the north side of Stone Street. Participants in the discussion with be representatives of the orginal design engineering firm, Great Western Engineering. The discussion will take place in the Commission Chambers.

• 8-JUL-2010
  Commissioners discussed the feasibility of the original design option, building the sidewalk along the north side of Stone Street, with engineers Bill Lloyd of Great West Engineering. It was estimated that if the original design were to be built the budgeted amount should be raised from $175,000 to $190,000. There was also some discussion about modifying the design to make Stone Street a one-way street. No decision was made at this time.
• 18-JAN-2011
  After meeting with Gardiner residents in December the Commissioners reviewed the sidewalk options including one that the residents proposed at the time of the meeting. On December 8th, the Commissioners met with Mike Wherley, Director of the Department of Transportation's Community Transportation Enhancement Program (CTEP) to discuss the need to move the project forward or withdraw the project.
  On December 14th, the Commissioners unanimously to go forward with the Gardiner sidewalk project.  They asked staff to contact the original engineering design firm about some contractual and scope of services provisions in the 2008 contract. The Commissioners also are considering using the “pre-qualified” design professionals or contractors to speed up the project timeline and to possibly lower overall project cost. The contract with the New West Engineering Company is now being re-negotiated and the Commissioners will be during the week of January 24th to decide contract details.

• 18-MAY-2011

  After additional public comment, the County Commissioners gave approval for the Gardiner Safe-routes-to-school sidewalk to be constructed along the north side of Stone Street from the theater near the highway to the high school.  The planning and design contract was awarded to Great West Engineering.  Completion of the project is expected be near the beginning of the new 2012 school year.

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