The Crossville City Council has approved the bid of Freitag Construction for work on the Garrison Park improvements.
Plans for Garrison Park include a playground area, a
splash pad, and restroom building and picnic pavilion.
According to the discussion at the meeting, the project is somewhat over budget and the total cost is expected to be $1,124,000 when it is completed. The playground equipment and the splash pad have both been bid separately and the bid approved includes the remainder of site preparation, sidewalk work, and construction of a restroom building, picnic pavilion and equipment room.
The total bid for the work was 554,400 by Freitag Construction. There was an optional add-on to include a standing seam metal roof for the restroom facility and initially the motion was not to include the additional cost because the project is over budget but after further discussion, the council agreed to include the better roof on the project and the bid was approved with 4 yes votes from all the council members present. Councilman Scot Shanks was not present for the meeting.
City Manager Greg Wood said that the project would have been quite a bit more over budget had the city not down much of the work to tear down the old grandstand. The part of the project approved was estimated to cost $416,000 and the bid was $554,400. The action also included a budget amendment in the amount of $200,000 to cover the overages.
Council also approved the grant contract for $19,400 from the Urban and Community Forestry Grant to pay for part of the city's urban forester position.
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