Bids opened for Lake Ave house demolition
PLYMOUTH — at Monday’s Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety, bids were opened for demolition of an unsafe building at 701 W. Lake avenue.
There were three bids received. The first was from Langfeldt Excavating LLC, from Plymouth, bidding $12,900. The second was from Beaver Excavating LLC, from Plymouth, bidding $14,350. The third was from Jackson Demolition Services Enterprise LLC, bidding $15,900.
The board approved a request from City attorney Sean Surrisi to review the bids with Building Commissioner Keith Hammonds and award it to the lowest responsive bidder.
Chief of Police David Bacon presented a request he’s received from Plymouth Community School Corporation (PCSC) Director of Transportation Brandon Berger.
“He was inquiring to see if we could possibly put in school zone signs on Lincoln Highway around the Christo’s Banquet area on one end. On the other end around the Warana apartments,” said Bacon.
The school zone would be just east of Roy Street to Leslie avenue.
Currently, the speed limit is 35 miles per hour. Implementing the school zone signs would reduce the speed limit to 25 miles per hour.
Prior to Monday’s meeting, he spoke with Street Superintendent Jim Marquardt, who was fine with the approval of the request.
Mayor Mark Senter asked Bacon and Marquardt if no parking has been thought of for the north side of Laporte. Senter asked about this because of bus traffic on the narrow street. Marquardt responded that he hadn’t noticed it
Marquardt responded that he hadn’t noticed it before, but did acknowledge that it is a narrow street. He also said that it has been discussed in the past.
Surrisi then brought up another parking issue that the Plan Commission mentioned at their last meeting.
“I guess some of the traffic routes out on Kingston and there was some talk about the end of Kingston as you approach the intersection with Lincolnway. I guess there were some current concerns there, at the end of school that there’s cars parked on the street and congestion of the buses,” Surrisi said.
Marquardt said that he’d look into the matters and bring it up for further discussion at the next board meeting.
The board approved the request to implement a school zone for that length of Lincoln Highway.
Marquardt then informed the board that earlier he had received a call from CSR Railroad informing his department that the railroad crossing on Oak Road nearest Dairy Queen would be closed for crossing work from Thursday night/friday morning until Tuesday, Sept. 22. Marquardt was told he’d be sent a detour map. The map has traffic going to Center Street to around Lake Avenue.
“I don’t really see that we have any choice in this,” he said. Marquardt spoke to the City Engineer, “railroads
are pretty much do what they do.”
He also stated that he would inform the PCSC Transportation Director.
The board approved a request from Park Superintendent Mike Hite to advertise for the Recreation Director position that has been vacant for a month.
Nickey Shively requested a temporary road closure for Warana Court in order to hold a neighborhood picnic. It’s planning on being held Saturday, Sept. 26.
“We would like to have barricades on each side of Warana Court. It does not interfere with Lincolnway or Jefferson because Warana Drive goes around Warana Court,” Shively said.
Board Member Jeff Houin asked, that while the board has granted this in the past and that it’s great for the neighborhood, if Shively has contacted the Marshall County Health Department concerning the event.
Shively replied that she hasn’t, but the event will be outside in the street and that all proper social distancing guidelines will be observed. She asked the board if she should contact the Health Department.
“I would, Nickey, just to let them know. The magic number is still 250 people,” Mayor Senter said. Shively said that the expected number of attendees would be lower than 250.
The board approved Shively’s request.