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Report of the Engineer
The DPW crew has completed the sidewalk replacement on Hanshaw Road down to Hillside
Drive. There is still more asphalt sidewalk from Hillside to Cayuga Heights Road, but we may
start this block of work until spring time because concrete is not supposed to be subjected to
temperatures below 40 deg. F within the first 24 hours.
The Bike/Pedestrian Committee has been very active on the sidewalk grant application process.
A preliminary application was submitted at the end of September, and a telephone conference
was had with NYSDOT earlier this month. NYSDOT was enthusiast about our project, but
informed us that they had as many as 15 applications for a very small pool of funds for their
region. Subsequently, it was decided to reduce the scope of the application to just the work along
Kline and Wyckoff Roads to make the application a smaller package to be more competitive
with the regions other projects. The final application is due on 10/21/16.
Since the Fisher Engineering traffic report did not dispute the basic evaluations in the SRF
Traffic report (for the medical office building project), I spoke to Tim Faulkner (Fisher) about
the potential benefits of a 3 lane design for Hanshaw Road between Pleasant Grove and N.
Triphammer. He thought that would be a worthwhile improvement and would be willing to
review it and give feedback. I can bring my sketches to the PWC meeting for discussion.
I need to get an area estimate to Suit Kote so they can give us a cost estimate for repaving of the
parking lot(s) around Village Hall and Village Green.
We are still waiting for the Village of Lansing to provide their official estimated sewer
projection to add to the Town of Lansing’s recent request for capacity.
Street signs have been ordered for the Pleasant Grove Road “hidden driveway”.
I was able to put together a list of all of the electric motors (7 varies HP) that were replaced at
the WWTP basement flood and the associated costs from the vendors. The village has paid a
total of $36,414.50 for the new ones. The insurance company is going to reimburse the Village
for 100% of the cost.
In the process of hiring the new Assistant Superintendent of Public Works, the Mayor has asked
me to put together a list of job duties/tasks that can be assigned to the new employee. I am
working on a list of tasks broken down into daily, weekly, monthly and yearly activity.
Chemung Supply will be coming in November for 2 days to do guard rail installation.
TCAT has put up new temporary signage at locations they are now officially identifying as Bus
Stops. They have been informed that they will need to submit a request for a license to have new
permanent signs installed when they deem the new stops are working out. I will be bringing their
official request before the Trustees when the time comes.