Beaver Avenue to be extended

Furniture Mart wins bid for Fieldhouse furnishings

Fort Morgan City Council approved a bid from RME Ltd to extend Beaver Avenue from Barlow Road to the Industrial Park this week.

The city had planned to do this project in 2020 but held of f due to complications with COVID-19.

“It’s the extension of Beaver Avenue that comes out of the Industrial Park, I think for a lot of years most people hadn’t been to the Industrial Park and didn’t realize that Beaver had a dead end in the middle of it,” Public Works Director Brent Nation said Tuesday.

The road should alleviate some of the truck traffic on Platte Avenue, and is designed to accommodate heavy vehicles. There will still be a gap in Beaver Avenue between Barlow and the Fieldhouse Recreation Center, which will be addressed once it has been designed and budgeted.

The city renewed ser vices with City Attorneys Geoff Wilson and Nina Williams, who recently started their own firm.

“We have been exclusively attended to by Nina and Geof f since we went with the contract attorney firm and they have both branched of f and star ted their own ser vices and are taking care of the municipalities that they’ve done for that firm,” Mayor Ron Shaver said. “I think they’ve done an impeccable job.”

The council accepted a bid from Furniture Mart to supply furniture for the Fieldhouse. It was selected over a lower bidder out of For t Collins to suppor t a local business.

“We talked about suppor ting our local businesses, boosting our downtown business district and I think that from my perspective I am in favor of staying with our local businesses,” Shaver said.

Fort Morgan Police Chief Loren Sharp reported that the evidence building is nearly completed structurally and will soon have electrical and concrete work done on it.

Top Door, a garage door instillation and repair company, was named business of the month at the meeting.