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Ishpeming water project to include Division Street

Council narrowly approves change

By LISA BOWERS

Journal Ishpeming

Bureau

ISHPEMING –Business M-28 in Ishpeming will get an update from top to bottom starting next spring.

During a special meeting Wednesday, the Ishpeming City Council voted 3-2 to remove the Salisbury Location as well as D and E streets from the city’s $10.8 million water project in order to complete water infrastructure work on Division Street, from Pine Street to Seventh Street, during the 2019 construction season.

The city requested permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to substitute the stretch of Division Street, also known as Business M-28, for one or more smaller areas due to a Michigan Department of Transportation milling-and-resurfacing project on the state trunkline.

In previous interviews, City Manager Mark Slown said putting Division Street into the current water project would be the best use of the city’s resources.

“We started hearing that (MDOT) will be funding the resurfacing of M-28, and we are trying to be as fiscally prudent as possible,” Slown said. “It is important to get the infrastructure done before they start tearing up the road.”

Also approved by the council on Wednesday was an amendment to a resolution in support of a Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund grant to improve the high school tennis courts originally adopted at a March council meeting.

Ishpeming Public Schools administrators and city officials have been working on a $438,000 project to implement trail improvements and build new tennis courts at the Ishpeming Playground Park near the intersection of West Empire and Oak streets since March.

The amendment documents an additional $9,500 in local matching funds, bringing the total match to $130,000 or 30.2 percent of the project cost.

The document also authorizes Slown to submit the trust fund grant application, the amended resolution and other supplemental information on behalf of the city.

If funding is approved, city officials hope to complete the work during the 2019 to 2020 time period.

The council also approved a request from Ishpeming Department of Public Works Director Carl Peterson to purchase 800 tons of gravel and 1,100 tons of winter sand.

The gravel will be purchased from A. Lindberg and Sons for $5,200 and the city will buy the winter sand from Carlson Loy for $12,650.

Lisa Bowers can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 242. Her email address is lbowers@miningjournal.net.

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