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Brainerd committee approves routine public-works contracts, punts Front Street sidewalk until reconstruction
Summary
The Safety & Public Works committee approved several routine contract awards and authorizations — landscaping, towing, chip seal, pavement markings solicitation and an annex change order — and voted to add the requested Front Street sidewalk extension to the future Front Street reconstruction project rather than fund it separately now.
The Brainerd City Safety & Public Works committee on Monday approved a slate of routine public-works contracts, authorized a pavement-markings solicitation and agreed to include a requested short sidewalk extension on Front Street as part of a future reconstruction project.
City Engineer Jesse Dean told the committee an estimate to extend the short sidewalk segment on the south side of Front Street between South 9th and 10th Streets would be “about $25,000.” Dean said the city does not employ flatwork-certified staff and recommended hiring a contractor if council wished to advance the work.
Rather than fund the work now, a councilmember moved to place the sidewalk extension in the scope of the eventual Front Street reconstruction project; the motion carried by voice vote. Dean told the…
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