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Engineering department outlines spring projects including $3 million detention pond and Grant Street Phase 2 schedule
Summary
Engineering staff told the Board of Works the city is preparing multiple spring and summer construction projects, headlined by a roughly $3 million regional detention pond and the Grant Street Phase 2 reconstruction; staff also reported funding requests and procurement steps for several neighborhood and downtown projects.
Kevin Krolick, speaking for the engineering department at the Jan. 27 Lebanon Board of Works meeting, outlined a slate of projects the city expects to advance this spring and summer, including a regional detention pond with an estimated budget around $3,000,000 and the Grant Street Phase 2 reconstruction.
"We're really in that time of year where we're getting ready for projects, getting funding appropriations in place, contracts set up, and getting ready to tee things off as we come into spring," Krolick said during his report.
Krolick listed several projects with current funding or pending requests: a regional detention pond budgeted at around $3,000,000; ditch restoration and trip-hazard repairs in the Chadwick neighborhood (funding figures in the transcript were stated as "350,200,000, respectively," a phrasing the city representative used while summarizing multiple line items); the Grant Street project, where phase 1 is nearing closeout and phase 2 is expected to bid in summer 2025 with a potential 2025 funding need of $842,905; and an Elizaville Road/Elm Swamp intersection project with an approximate value of $250,000.
Krolick said the city received 11 letters of interest for construction inspection services on Grant Street Phase 2 and that a small committee will recommend a consultant. He also discussed work on Witt Road (categorical exclusion filed with the state), Noble Street funding requests, an HVAC completion at Oaks on Main, and redevelopment projects at South 39 linked to RDC awards and the REDI grant program.
Public works resurfacing work was discussed as well. Krolick told the board the city received a Community Crossing grant of $627,000 and opened bids for resurfacing; the low bid was cited as $1,222,022.86. Krolick said some resurfacing line items are ineligible for the grant and staff estimated a portion of the grant applied at about $581,000, "leaving us with about $762,000" to cover the rest as presented to the board.
Krolick also raised other 2025 items: a food-and-beverage funding request of about $105,000 for pickleball courts, a revised fire station floor plan under budget review, and demolition and redevelopment planning for the old street garage site.
Krolick closed by noting additional work items and that staff would return with recommendations on consultant selections and funding appropriations.
The engineering report outlined the city's near-term capital plan and identified funding steps and procurement milestones that will appear before the board and city council in coming weeks.
