HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-08-10 MinutesCity of Fayetteville
Sidewalk & Trails Task Force
Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, August 10, 2006
City Administration Building, Room 326
Members Present: Kyle Cook, Laura Kelly, Celia Scott-Silkwood, Sam LaFoy,
Surrendra Singh, Scott Mashbum
Public / Staff: Ginny Apperson, Terry Gulley, Steve Hatfield, Chuck Rutherford
Meeting called to order by Kyle Cook.
Steve Hatfield reported that President Bush signed a Transportation Bill today
with an amount of $268 billion dollars.
Laura Kelly made a motion to approve the June 2005 regular meeting minutes
and the June 2005 special meeting minutes:;:: Sam LaFoy gave a second and the
motion passed. ... .
Kyle Cook initiated a discussion regarding upcoming changes that will take place
with the implementation of the in-house trail realignment.program.
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Terry Gulley reported on the background Etna:Origin of in-house trail realignment.
The purpose of this program is to increase the amount of trail construction
accomplished each:year. To implement this program, the Transportation Division
will hire nine new full-time employees to create a trail construction crew. This
crew will complete the'ectual construction of all new trails, eliminating the need to
hire contractors, and therefore significantly reducing expenses. This will allow
excess funds to be.used fatTadditional trail construction. The trail construction
goal will, be five miles of,new trapper year. They hope to construct 1.25 miles of
new trailby the end of 2005.
Kyle Cook mentioned that the debate for funding this new program will be on-
going within Crty: Council every year due to the fact that the funding will come
from Sales Tax Revenue.
Steve Hatfield will begin to focus heavily on the acquisition of new right-of-way
needed for the construction of trails. Steve mentioned that acquiring the
necessary right-of-way ahead of the in-house trail construction program will be
especially challenging due to the speed of construction and the amount of new
trails that will be accomplished. This is a process that often takes significant
time.
There are many existing trail segments with right-of-way nearby that we can use
to begin work on trail connections early on in the program.
The Sidewalk & Trails Task Force expressed their support of the in-house trail
realignment program.
Terry Gulley gave an update on sidewalk construction.
The main sidewalk project for the third quarter has been Lawson St. This is
project is nearly complete.
Sidewalk construction has started along the first block of Maple St. Crews will
continue working to the east one block at a time. Approximately 4,000 ft of
sidewalk will be completed in this area.
Pedestrian crossing improvements will soon be made on Maple, LaFayette, and
Dickson as they intersect with College Ave. These improvements will include the
installation of countdown pedestrian crossing timers.