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6 <br />coordinate the Streetscape and landscape area construction, scheduling construction during a particularly <br />busy period for Downtown, and, most importantly, having to delay already scheduled construction <br />projects. <br />Currently we have a backlog of Street reconstruction projects we hope to complete before the fall paving <br />season ends and we plan to begin, construction on the High School Road sidewalk as soon as labor <br />availability permits. Extending our construction time Downtown likely would result in our inability to <br />complete construction of the High School Road sidewalk this calendar year. <br />Adoption of Resolution B would authorize the Town Manager to reschedule other construction projects <br />and allocate $20,000 in available Streetscape funding to cover the anticipated materials cost of <br />completing this section of Streetscape construction utilizing Town labor in the fall of 2000. <br />Option C: Delay Construction One Year <br />Over the last several years the staff has provide the Town Council with options for Streetscape <br />construction projects utilizing Town labor resources for upcoming summer construction seasons. We <br />anticipate returning to the Council this fall with a group of construction options for the late spring and <br />summer of 2001. At that time we could include the Streetscape section in front of the Skills <br />Development Center among the options. An advantage to this approach is that it is less expensive than <br />contracting out the project, as proposed in Option A, and it does not require that already scheduled <br />construction projects be delayed, as proposed in Option B. Disadvantages to this approach are that if it <br />is a selected option, it would not be constructed until late next spring and it would interfere with the <br />Town's ability to do a single large project, like the work recently done on East Franklin Street, in a <br />single summer construction season. <br />Adoption of Resolution C would instruct the Town Manager to include this section among the <br />Streetscape construction options provided to the Council this fall. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />We recommend that the Town Council adopt Resolution A authorizing the Town Manager to allocate <br />$60,000 in available Streetscape funding to support the private contractor option. <br />ATTACHMENTS <br />1. Conceptual plan of the proposed landscape area and Streetscape improvements. <br />2. Petition from Mr. Moses Carey requesting Town funding for Streetscape <br />improvements. <br />RESOLUTION A <br />