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By Audrey Caro
Of The New Era
The Sweet Home City Council
unanimously approved an inter-
governmental agreement with the
Oregon Department of Transpor-
tation at a special meeting on Aug.
28.
Councilor James Goble was
absent.
The agreement, referred to as
the Multimodal Transportation
Enhancement Program, is to con-
struct a multi-use path, sidewalks
and bike lanes along Highway 20
from 54th Avenue to Riggs Hill
Road, across from the Shea Point
rest area, in the city of Sweet
Home.
The matter was on the agenda
of the Aug. 22 meeting for council
action.
In a request for council ac-
tion on the Aug. 22 agenda, city
staff engineer Joe Graybill offered
three options to councilors: re-
ject the agreement and cancel the
project, reject the agreement and
re-apply for an additional grant,
or accept the local agency agree-
ment and authorize the agree-
ment.
GraybiU offered some back-
ground.
"As part of a major 3R road-
way improvement to Main Street
by ODOT in 1999, the sidewalks
being constructed stopped short
of the east city limits - Riggs Hill
Road/Shea Point - at 54th Av-
enue in Foster," Graybill said. "
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design constraint to sidewalks
continuing eastward. Consul-
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Corps of Engineers), and (Al-
bany & Eastern Railroad) over
the years have morphed into
a sidewalk accessibility plan
that can provide east-west ac-
cess and serve many customers."
In 2012, Sweet Home Engineering
staff applied to the ODOT State-
wide Transportation Improve-
ment Program grant process to
fund sidewalks, safe crossings,
parking, and a wide shoreline
multi-use path that connected
from an existing one off 60th Ave
eastward to the USACOE Shea
Point Overlook, Graybill said.
That project was approved on
December 18, 2014.
Councilors did not make a
decision at the Aug. 22 meeting;
they had more questions.
City Manager Ray Towry
invited Brennan Burbank, local
project delivery coordinator from
Cit7 of Sweet Home
THIS DIAGRAM shows planned improvements between 54th Avenue and Riggs Hill Road (Shea Point) that will be financed by the agreement.
ODOT, to answer those questions, hanced project," he said.
"One thing in my conversa- The Original amount that was
tion with Brennan is there is a lit- funded was $1.8 million dollars
fie bit of time constraint as far as including a Sweet Home match of
funding is concerned and ODOT$523,535.
needs an answer on this, prefer- "When Joe (Graybill) sub-
ably by this week," Towry said. mitred the application for the
Burbank started by saying enhanced program, the original
that no funds were at risk for the project was for $2.9 million," Bur-
project if councilors decided not bank said. "Once we started dig-
to sign the IGA. ging into this 10 months ago, we
"I see this as something thatlooked at the awarded amount
you as the city are doing a favor compared to what was applied for.
for ODOT in signing this IGA, this Obviously, there's a big difference
first IGA, with later following up there - a $1.1 million difference."
with an amendment to subtractThe revised total project cost
some funds," Burbank said. $2,168,087 but with more federal
"By signing the IGA, the cityand state funds, Sweet Home's
agreed to depositing $25,880.40 match amount is $299,534.51.
in the month of September to-Burbank said the revised
ward the design phase of the en- project does not include two por-
Linn County Sheriff: warns of check scam
Linn County Sheriff Bruce Ri-
ley last week warned county resi-
dents of a check scam - after he
himself received two bogus checks
sent to him in a "priority marl" en-
velope, he said.
"At this time, we know of two
business names involved in the
scams: Multi Aquaculture Systems,
INC. from New York, and Euro-
shine Cleaning, INC. from Califor-
nia," Riley said. His office checked
with one of the companies and
was told there is a scam involving
checks with the company name be-
ing sent to people; the company
has reported this scam to its lo-
cal law enforcement, Riley said.
Riley warned members of the pub-
lic not to fall prey to these types of
sEams.
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