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Cookeville council approves sidewalk rebid addendum, awards waterline contract and acts on easement; several public-hearing dates set
Summary
At its March 6 meeting, the Cookeville City Council approved an engineering addendum to rebid Phase 2 of the East Spring Street sidewalk project, awarded a $940,006 contract for the Mine Lake Creek waterline, acted on a water-tank easement, and set multiple public-hearing dates for rezoning and surplus-property items.
The Cookeville City Council on March 6 approved several routine and project-specific items, including an engineering addendum to rebid Phase 2 of the East Spring Street sidewalk project, awarded the low bid for the Mine Lake Creek waterline project, and approved a resolution concerning an easement on property at 1100 South Willow Avenue. The council also set public-hearing dates for several planning items.
Council authorized the city manager to execute Addendum No. 1 to the engineering contract with Reagan Smith for rebidding Phase 2 of the East Spring Street (U.S. 70 North) multimodal sidewalk project; the addendum is a lump-sum fee not to exceed $3,000, and staff said the work is eligible for reimbursement under a TDOT multimodal grant. The council approved the addendum by voice vote.
The council awarded the 2025 Mine Lake Creek waterline project to Clary Construction for the low bid of $940,006. City staff said the first phase will replace about 4,300 feet of 4-inch line with a 12-inch line to extend service from Tennessee Avenue up to Holiday Road, allow installation of fire hydrants and enable subdividing of served parcels. The council approved the bid by voice vote.
On an item listed on the agenda as Resolution R25-0303 "to obtain an easement for a water tank and an access road" on the property at 1100 South Willow Avenue (identified by staff as Parcel 98 on tax map 65, owned by Broad Street Properties, formerly Norwalk Property), staff told council the developer has asked the city to remove an obsolete tank easement and recommended approval of a measure to terminate the easement and access road. Council approved the measure by voice vote.
The council also set public-hearing dates on the consent agenda: a hearing on April 3, 2025 to consider declaring a portion of the property at 125 Chestnut Avenue surplus (request submitted by Quipo Regional Medical Center); hearings on March 25, 2025 for Ordinance O25-0301 (amendments to the official street map) and Ordinance O25-0302 (rezoning a parcel on West Broad Street and Richland Ridgetale Drive, tax map 39 parcel 182 and a portion of parcel 185, from RS-20 single-family residential to CL local commercial); and a public hearing in April 2025 on Ordinance O25-0303 to rezone property at 1211 South Jefferson Avenue (tax map 66 parcel 81.08) from CR regional commercial to CG general commercial. The consent agenda motion passed.
All votes taken on the above items were announced by the mayor as carrying by a 5-yes voice vote.
The meeting record shows the approvals were routine votes; staff gave the technical background for the sidewalk addendum and the waterline bid before each vote.
