Lisbon council hires engineers to design storm sewer projects
By TOM GIAMBRONILISBON - Village council will stick with an East Liverpool engineering firm to do the design work on two stormwater sewer projects. Council voted at this week's special meeting to hire the firm of Dallis Dawson & Associates to do the design work on the South Lincoln Avenue and North Market Street storm sewer projects for $38,416.
A council committee chose DDA from among six engineering firms it invited to submit proposals. The committee reviewed their qualifications before deciding on DDA and then entered into negotiations on a price. The village has used DDA on the East Lincoln Way project.
According to the contract, the fee doesn't cover permit fees, environmental investigations or assessments, geotechnical investigations, roadway rehabilitation design, right-of-way acquisition, coordination and review with ODOT, construction inspection services, and construction layout services.
Storm sewers will be installed 1,200 feet along Lincoln Avenue from West Lincolnway to near the former Erie Railroad right-of-way, and 1,300 feet along North Market Street, from Spruce Street to Chestnut Street.
The cost of the two projects is $632,899, which is being funded with federal stimulus money split evenly between grants and loans.
In other action at the meeting, Mayor Mike Lewis wanted to know why the public swimming pool was closed on July 4th.
"It was chilly," someone told him.
"It wasn't that bad," Lewis replied, noting the adult swim hour went off as scheduled from 11 a.m. until noon, and then the pool was closed, with no sign posted explaining why.
"That's why you don't have attendance up there because you never know when the pool is open," said Lewis.
Councilman Joyce Adams, whose committee oversees the swimming pool, said she will contact the manager to find out why the pool was closed.
While on the subject, Adams suggested perhaps now was the time to develop a comprehensive plan to upgrade the pool rather than going with a year-to-year bandaid approach. She said this was suggested by the Lisbon Community Foundation, which is one of several local organizations that supports the pool with donations.
Adams said the foundation leadership recently asked for a detailed list of all repairs that need to be done at the pool. She plans to begin working with village officials to develop that list.
Council unanimously agreed to sell the land it inherited in the Caldwell Street area of town along Mill Site Creek, a mostly gentle stream that became a raging river on the night of Aug. 28, 2004, when a major rainstorm struck the area. By the next morning, several houses were swept downstream and others were determined to be uninhabitable.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to purchase nine of the properties, with the village taking ownership once the remaining homes were razed.
The village no longer wants to maintain the property and instead will sell it at an auction once all of the paperwork is completed and approval is received. The land can only be used as green space and construction of buildings on the property is prohibited, a prohibition that would extend to all owners.
