Heritage Trail Ext - IDOT FundsMEMORANDUM
September 26, 2001
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
Grant Application for Statewide Transportation Enhancement Funds
Planning Services Manager Laura Carstens is recommending approval of the
submission of the Grant Application for the Statewide Transportation Enhancement
Funds to the Iowa Department of Transportation for funding of the Heritage Trail
Extension from Heron Pond to the Dubuque Jaycees Trail, and the reallocation of
$100,000 from the Highway 20 landscaping project in FY02 as the local match.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
Michael C. Van Milligen
MCVM/jh
Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
September 19, 2001
TO:
FROM:
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager
SUBJECT: Grant Application for Statewide Transportation Enhancement Funds
INTRODUCTION
This memo transmits for City Council approval the submission of a grant application to the Iowa
Department of Transportation (IDOT) for Statewide Transportation Enhancement Funds for the
extension of Heritage Trait from Heron Pond to the Dubuque Jaycees Trail. A map, project
budget, and resolution are attached for City Council consideration.
DISCUSSION
The project would link two existing components of the Heritage Trail Riverfront System: the
Heron Pond Wetlands Nature Trail on Schmitt Island, and the Dubuque Jaycees Trail (formerly
the Northern Levee Path) along Peosta Channel. The grant would provide a one-mile off-road
connection from Heron Pond along the Ski Club road, Greyhound Park Road and the 16th Street
bridge to the planned Pyatigorsk Park at the southern end of Dubuque Jaycees Trail.
The Heron Pond Wetlands Nature Trail, completed last spring, loops around MilIer-Riverview
Park, Heron Pond, and the back of the Greyhound Park. The segment along the Ski Club road
was included as a bid alternate for the Heron Pond Wetlands Nature Trail last year. This
alternate was not accepted because the City did not have sufficient funding.
The Dubuque Jaycees Trail is scheduled for bidding and construction in 2001. The City has a
Recreational Trails grant to widen this existing pathway atop the levee along Peosta Channel.
City Engineering staff and consultants from Veenstra and Kimm, Inc. are working with IDOT to
design modifications to the 16th Street bridge including loops underneath both sides of the
bridge allowing users to access the existing bridge sidewalk without crossing 16th Street and
Greyhound Park Road. The bddge modifications and new off-road trail would provide a direct,
off-road link from the proposed trail to Pyatigorsk Park at 16th Street and Kerper Blvd.
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Greyhound Park Road to the northwest corner of the western parking lot for the Greyhound Park
and Casino, near the wetlands. These project design elements were reviewed with the Dubuque
Ski Club and the Dubuque Greyhound Park and Casino last year. Both groups found them
acceptable.
BUDGETIMPACT
The total costs for the Heritage Trail Extension from Heron Pond to the Dubuque Jaycees Trail
ara estimated to be $333,000. The requested grant amount is $233,000. IDOT requires a 30%
local match, which is $100,000 for this project.
This trail project was submitted to the IDOT for their July, 2001 round for the Recreational Trails
grant program. The project was not funded, although it scored fairly well. The IDOT
recommends that the City apply for the Statewide Transportation Enhancement Funds and/or
raapply for the next round of Recreational Trail grants in January, 2002.
We have reviewed this project with Administrative Services Manager Pauline Joyce and Leisure
Services Manager Gil Spence in light of other trail and recreational projects budgeted in the FY
2002 Capital Improvement Program. They felt that the City should apply for this IDOT grant. Gil
has recommended reallocation of $100,000 of the funds budgeted in FY02 for the Highway 20
landscape improvements as the local match for this grant. Gil then will submit the Highway 20
landscaping project with $100,000 in an out year this fall as part of the FY03 CIP budgeting
process.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council approve the attached resolution authorizing submission
of the Statewide Transportation Enhancement Funds to the IDOT for funding of the Hedtage
Trail Extension from Heron Pond to the Dubuque Jaycees Trail, and the reallocation of $100,000
from the Highway 20 landscaping project in FY02 as the local match.
Attachments
cc Pauline Joyce, Administrative Services Manager
Gil Spence, Leisure Services Manager
RESOLUTION NO.431-01
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A GRANT APPLICATION FOR IOWA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION
ENHANCEMENT FUNDS FOR THE HERITAGE TRAIL EXTENSION FROM
THE HERON POND WETLANDS NATURE TRAIL TO THE DUBUQUE
JAYCEES TRAIL
Whereas, the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) has Statewide
Transportation Enhancement Funds available to develop recreational trails in
cities; and
Whereas, the City of Dubuque has adopted a Comprehensive Plan and a
Riverfront Plan that include goals for development of bike/hike trails; and
Whereas, the City of Dubuque has adopted the Heritage Trail Master Plan that
includes the Heritage Trail Extension.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. That the Planning Services Manager is hereby authorized to sign and
submit this application for Statewide Transportation Enhancement Funds to the
IDOT for the extension of Heritage Trail from the Heron Pond Wetlands Nature
Trail to the Dubuque Jaycees Trail, on behalf of the City of Dubuque.
Section 2. That the City of Dubuque agrees to adequately maintain the trail for
its intended use and maintain the total trail used to justify the project in public
use for a minimum of 20 years following project completion.
Section 3. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to reallocate $100,000
from the FY02 Capital Improvement Program from the Highway 20 Landscaping
project to serve as the local match for this grant.
Passed, approved and adopted this 1st. day of
Attest:
Jeanne F. Schneider, City Clerk
October ,2001.
Terrance M. Duggan, Mayor
City of Dubuque E.
Statewide Transportation Enhancement Fund -- itemized cost estimate
Heritage Trail Extension: Heron Pond Wetlands to Dubuque Jaycees Trail
No. Item Quantity Unit Unit Cost Total Cost
I Staking 1
2 Embankment 3,500
3 Clearing and Grubbing 1
4 Earthwork 1
5 Excavation 145
6 Remove old pavement 462
7 Concrete Curb and Gutter
-remove and replace 20
8 Asphalt pavement, 4" 750
9 Granular stone subbase 1,100
10 Crushed Stone 464
11 Concrete Pavement, 9" 462
12 Relocate Ski Club sign 1
13 Remove/Relocate fence and 1
barrier on bridge
14 Rebuild fence barriers along 1
Ski Club road
16 Bridge Modifications 1
17 Centerline striping on trail 4,582
18 Handicapped Ramp 1
19 Traffic Control 1
20 Street Crosswalk markings 2
21 Seeding 2,582
22 Filter fabric 670
23 Trail signs 16
LS $4,650.00 $4,650
CY ~10.00 835,000
LS $2,700.00 ¢2,700
LS $12,200.00 $12,200
CY $8.00 $1,163
SY $4.00 $1,848
LF $18.00 $36O
TON $85.00 $63,750
TON $18.00 $19,800
TON $8.00 $3,712
SY $45.00 $20,790
LS $800.00 $800
LS $10,000.00 $10,000
EA 81,650.00 $1,650
EA 870,000.00 870,000
LF $0.26 $1,191
EA 8800.00 8800
LS 86,375.00 $6,375
EA 8500.00 81,000
SY 83.00 87,746
SY 81.50 81,005
EA 872.00 81,152
Total Construction Estimate
$267,693
15% Engineering/Construction Mgmt*
15% Contingency
825,154
840,154
Total Project Cost Estimate
~333,000
30% City Funds
70% IDOT grant request
8100,000
$233,000
* Engineering costs are reduced by 815,000 as the design work for the bridge
modifications has already been completed.
Heritage Trail Riverfront Extension:
Connection Between Heron Pond Wetlands Nature Trail
and
Dubuque Jaycees Trail
Bridge
Heron Pond Wetlands Nature Trail &
Dubuque Jaycess Trail (Northern Levee Path)
Statewide Enhancement Project Funding Proposal