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February 7, 2010

Panel to consider subway re-inspection

DANVILLE — The city council’s Public Works Committee will consider Tuesday night approving another inspection and measurement report for the Fairchild Subway.

Aldermen will consider approving $6,200 in motor fuel tax funds for an engineering agreement with URS Corp. of Decatur to take the new wall measurements and perform a new inspection to compare results from previous findings in 2007.

Past structural assessment of the Fairchild Subway showed further wall displacement, in addition to continuing deterioration.

The city had hired consulting firm URS Corp. to perform an initial structural assessment for $59,000 and then a second phase of evaluation, recommendations and a corridor study for $67,136.

In 2007, URS discovered the walls moved about 13 inches, an increase from the last measurement of 11.75 inches in 1988.

Minor repairs occurred in 1941 on the 1915 Fairchild Subway, but officials have said cracks and seepage started six years after the subway was built.

The condition of struts and concrete continues to deteriorate, and the subway also is substandard in its vertical and horizontal clearances.

The structure supports six Norfolk Southern and CSX railroad tracks.

City officials are exploring funding options to replace the structure.

In other business, aldermen will review the city’s preliminary 2010-2011 budget.

Also Tuesday, the committee will consider:

-- Approving a $359,777 contract with Big O Services for city hall parking lot improvements. A portion of the building’s basement is beneath the parking lot and waterproofing over the basement roof has failed.

Structural repairs to the roof are required, and the reconstructed lot will include a pedestrian way from Walnut to Vermilion streets.

The construction documents also allowed for new parking construction on the Kresge lot as an alternative bid.

Funding comes from the 2009 bond issue.

-- Approving a $79,665 contract with FBI Buildings of Remington, Ind., for a parks storage and maintenance facility at the Voorhees Street public works building. Funding comes from the sale of two public works facilities.

-- Purchasing 1,250 more 96-gallon garbage toters from Toter, Inc. for $57,500, plus delivery, or $46 per unit. Funding comes from the Solid Waste Fund.

COMING UP

The city council’s Public Works Committee will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Robert E. Jones Municipal Building, 17 W. Main St.

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