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Shorewood committee backs RFP to plan neighborhood greenways and traffic calming
Summary
The Public Works Committee voted to recommend an RFP to hire a consultant to design neighborhood greenways and a village traffic-calming program, noting a $65,000 budget line and a spring start aimed at adoption before next year's budget cycle.
The Public Works Committee voted to recommend an RFP to the Village Board to hire a consultant to develop neighborhood greenways and a traffic-calming program. The committee approved the recommendation by voice vote; the transcript records affirmative responses but does not record an itemized tally.
Bart Keesen Trogg, who presented the RFP scope to trustees, said the consultant would carry out four primary tasks: propose public-engagement methods; review earlier greenway work; draft a final greenway report for staff and public review; and develop a traffic-calming program. "We adopted the bike pad plan last year," Keesen Trogg said, describing the RFP as a continuation of that work and saying two greenway tasks could be combined to avoid duplicative effort.
Trustees pressed about sequencing and emphasis. Keesen Trogg said task 1—approval of a public-engagement plan—should happen before substantive design work, and that tasks 2 and 3 (analysis and report generation) could be merged. Trustees also asked whether the tasks would be weighted; Keesen Trogg replied the engagement plan is foundational and the greenway work and traffic-calming program would follow as complementary elements.
On budget, the RFP document includes a $65,000 figure for consultant work and outreach; Keesen Trogg said the consultant must work within that amount and that the line should cover outreach such as postcard mailings. Trustees raised whether a recent external grant tied to a separate Capital Drive project would fund the work; Keesen Trogg clarified the Capital Drive grant (discussed separately) is not identified as a greenway and is limited to Capital Drive work. He said Capital Drive had been allocated up to $3,000,000 from the grant pot and that Shorewood would likely need to provide a roughly 20% local match if it pursued that funding.
The committee approved recommending the RFP to the Village Board by voice vote. The committee recorded aye responses during the motion but did not provide a roll-call tally in the recorded transcript. The Village Board will receive the committee recommendation for its consideration; any formal authorization of consultant hiring or budget allocation will require board action.
