GREENFIELD — Town Council will hold a special meeting Wednesday night to vote on several end-of-fiscal-year housekeeping items, as well as a request for money to complete repairs to Silver Street.
According to Department of Public Works Director Don Ouellette, the DPW originally planned to do all of the work in-house, but recently realized the necessary repairs were too extensive to get done before the end of the year. If Town Council approves the requests, he said the project will go out to bid immediately and a private company will likely be able to complete the work by fall.
Ouellette said the total cost of the project is about $1 million. The sidewalks on the south side of the street will be re-done, as well as about 1,400 feet of sewer and drain pipe. Then, he said the road will be repaved from Davis to Federal Street and about 20 structures along that stretch, such as manholes and catch basins, will be replaced.
The DPW already replaced a small piece of water main last week, he said.
“We were going to do all of the pipe work in-house, but as we continued to check it, it went from a couple hundred feet to almost a couple thousand feet of work,” Ouellette said. “If (Town Council) approves it on Wednesday night, then it will go out immediately to bid and we’ll get somebody in there hopefully before or just after Labor Day.”
The DPW is requesting $245,000 from the town’s capital stabilization account for the project, and Ouellette said he was also able to look at a number of old articles that haven’t been closed out yet and repurpose that money for the Silver Street repairs. If approved, the total amount transferred from those articles would be $148,161.