6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Traffi c talk, crosswalks tie up city council
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Cottage Grove City Council
had its hands full on Monday
night with an array of traffi c-re-
lated agenda items. The agen-
da--carried mostly by city engi-
neer Ron Bradsby (for which he
apologized)--noted no less than
three itmes related to roads and
traffi c with in the city of Cot-
tage Grove.
South 6th St.
The council approved a bid
for $427,365.36 from Knife
River for the work scheduled on
South 6th St. and Mosbey Creek
Rd.
"The city has prioritized this
and so we put the bids out,"
Bradsby told the council.
The amount, while coming
in lower than the $434,670.68
from a different fi rm, did not in-
clude fl agging costs.
When asked why the Request
for Proposal did not include a
request for an estimate for such
services by councilman Mike
Fleck, Bradsby noted, "We had
a general item called traffi c con-
trol and let it be broad based.
We gave them latitute to give
us an hourly rate but we don't
have an hourly estimate. Brads-
by told the council that his best
guest would be $10,000 more
for fl agging and traffi c control
costs.
The item passed unanimous-
ly with councilman Jake Boone
absent from the meeting.
Crosswalk
KNND is losing the cross-
walk in front of the studio and
that's just fi ne by station owner
Cameron Reiten.
According to Bradsby, when
the city freshened up the cross-
walks, they painted no parking
section according to state reg-
ulations. However, the new no
parking additions meant four
lost parking spots--two on the
east side and two on the west.
Bradsby told the council that
Books on Main owner called the
city to inquire as to what could
be done to regain parking.
"It's confusing out there with
the yellow and then the parking
spot," Fleck said before mak-
ing the motion to remove the
crosswalk across from Books
on Main, keeping the crosswalk
near the police station.
"I want to express my support
of this," Reiten told the council,
noting that he hadn't suffered
any lost business due to the
lost parking spaces because he
wasn't a retail business.
South 10th and Taylor
Motorists headed near 10th
and Taylor will fi nd a new stop
sign--soon. According to Brads-
by, there's no scheduled time to
place the sign but he hopes to
get one in place soon to, "get
traffi c used to it being an all-
way stop" before the new Har-
rison Elementary School opens
next fall.
As part of the construction of
the new school, a traffi c analy-
sis was completed and one of
the recommendations was that
Taylor and South 10th become
a three-way stop.
Fleck threw his support be-
hind the idea noting that, as a
neighbor in the area, he has seen
his share of near misses con-
cerning traffi c accidents. Mayor
Jeff Gowing also piped in, stat-
ing that in 1969, the stop sign
was installed at the crossing due
to a fatality. "That intersection
is a proven danger," he said.
The motion, also made by
Fleck, passed.
School crossing
Great Days Early Education
Center is getting a crosswalk of
its own.
Owner Barbara Howell came
before the board after Bradsby's
presentation to present a peti-
tion with 60 signatures from the
parents of her school requesting
that the city address the dangers
of River Rd.
"For 40 years, we've been
taking care of all the children
in Cottage Grove," Howell said.
"We have an after school pro-
gram now with a bus that brings
children from the schools and a
teacher that goes out, meets 30
children and then has to walk
in front of the bus with them.
Traffi c doesn't obey the law and
sometimes the bus has to honk
at cars to get them to stop."
Bradsby agreed with Howell
telling the council that he had
met her on site and witnessed
the dangers.
The crosswalk would begin
near the south entrance of the
school and allow children to
cross safely.
"It's also an added reminder
that it's a school zone there, for
drivers," Bradsby said.
The motion passed.
The city council is putting an
end to parking in front of the
Holloman building between
Hwy. 99 and 8th St.
According to Bradsby, an
ODOT project that was com-
pleted in 2014 left the city with
bike lanes that the city then dis-
carded.
"Because it's not painted yel-
low there, people park there,"
Bradsby said. "It only leaves
nine feet for traffi c and we nor-
mally like to see 10 or 11 feet.
The city will reportedly now
paint no parking in the area to
prevent cars from narrowing the
roadway.
According to Bradsby, the
only businesses that would be
affected are "the renewable en-
ergy building, the tattoo parlor
and the Holloman building."
But the Hollomans, according
to Bradsby, don't mind.
The motion passed.
No more parking
MAIN ST., SWINGING BRIDGE POSTPONED
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Cottage Grove residents who were
hoping to see progress on the Main Street
Bridge and the Swinging Bridge by the
new year will have to wait.
Cottage Grove City Manager Rich-
ard Meyers informed the city council on
Monday, September 11 that the money
to begin work on S. 6th St. were coming
in part from the money set aside for the
Main Street Bridge.
"We are monitoring the conditions of
the bridge but we need to get the permits
to work in the water before we go to bid,"
Meyers told the council. "We'll wait until
next spring to go to bid and part of why
we can do South 6th now is because we
are going to wait until the spring to do
Main Street Bridge."
Meyers told the council that the city
also looked at doing the Swinging Bridge
but opted to wait.
"It was $166,000 to design the bridge
and then the option you chose, not
the pre-fabricated bridge, was another
$400,000 to $600,000 to complete," he
said. "We could have done the bridge but
South 6th and the roads have a little more
transportation value than the bridge."
Mayor Jeff Gowing took issue with the
company responsible for handling the
re-construction of the Swinging Bridge,
particularly the cost of the design.
"At $166,000, at $200 an hour they're
spending 830 hours? That's ridiculous,"
he said.
Meyers said the city was addressing the
company directly.
It wasn't all bad news for bridge lov-
ers at Monday night's meeting. Meyers
reported that residents who donate to the
Swinging Bridge on their water bills have
raised approximately $2,000 so far.
"It's not a lot to get it done in a timely
manner but it is something to show when
we apply for grants," he said. "We can
say, 'Look at what the community has
done so far.'"
The city will be meeting in Salem for a
$150,000 grant in the near future for the
bridge.
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