Shundi Road Easement Clarified
Delaware County Commissioners will probably take up again the issue of giving the City of Grove part of Shundi Road, Bruce Poindexter, chairman, said this week. The Shundi Road issue is part of the 18th Street Project, with Shundi scheduled to be widened to three lanes from its intersection with the new 18th street, north to 9th street.
The portion from 13th street south to where 18th will intersect is currently a dirt road.
"In the past the Grove city manager used to come down to the commissioners meeting and explain what was happening, when the city wanted to take over a county section line road, and we were usually agreeable to it," Poindexter said. However, the city did not do this for Shundi Road.
"I talked with Bill Galletly last week and he apologized for not bringing us up to speed on the project," Poindexter said.
"We would like for the city to take over all of Shundi down to Lake Road 3 and maintain it, but if that isn't possible we will still do it. As it stands, we are giving the city of Grove 33 feet of easement from Road 300 to 310," he added.
The 18th street project bid came in higher than anticipated due to increased asphalt and cement costs, $2.2 milllion for the original two-lane with bike path proposal. Only one bid was received,
from APAC Construction. The engineer's estimate was $1,982,000.
Councilman Terry Ryan had asked the city to consider whether or not it could build the road to save money, using its own crews, but was told that the city did not have the equipment to do it nor the personnel to operate such equipment, such as a bulldozer, and that it would take the entire city crew off other projects while building 18th street.
When asked if county road crews could build it for the city, Bruce Poindexter said "we could probably build it, we have the crews and equipment, but we would have to pull everybody off other projects which would put us in a bind."
He added that the bid estimate sounded "somewhat high" to him considering the 18th street project itself was just a half-mile long.
The portion from 13th street south to where 18th will intersect is currently a dirt road.
"In the past the Grove city manager used to come down to the commissioners meeting and explain what was happening, when the city wanted to take over a county section line road, and we were usually agreeable to it," Poindexter said. However, the city did not do this for Shundi Road.
"I talked with Bill Galletly last week and he apologized for not bringing us up to speed on the project," Poindexter said.
"We would like for the city to take over all of Shundi down to Lake Road 3 and maintain it, but if that isn't possible we will still do it. As it stands, we are giving the city of Grove 33 feet of easement from Road 300 to 310," he added.
The 18th street project bid came in higher than anticipated due to increased asphalt and cement costs, $2.2 milllion for the original two-lane with bike path proposal. Only one bid was received,
from APAC Construction. The engineer's estimate was $1,982,000.
Councilman Terry Ryan had asked the city to consider whether or not it could build the road to save money, using its own crews, but was told that the city did not have the equipment to do it nor the personnel to operate such equipment, such as a bulldozer, and that it would take the entire city crew off other projects while building 18th street.
When asked if county road crews could build it for the city, Bruce Poindexter said "we could probably build it, we have the crews and equipment, but we would have to pull everybody off other projects which would put us in a bind."
He added that the bid estimate sounded "somewhat high" to him considering the 18th street project itself was just a half-mile long.
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