Article submitted by Jamie Fleury, The Pilot News Staff Writer
The Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety recently gave preliminary approval to award the cemetery and street project to the lowest responsive bidder pending the approval of the engineers. City of Plymouth Attorney Sean Surrisi illustrated that it would be advantageous to get work scheduled as soon as possible. E&B Paving in Rochester submitted a bid of $886,494.19. Several other bids came in at over $1M. With continually rising costs, Street Superintendent James Marquardt was hopeful that a qualified bid came in within budget.
In other news MACOG has used portions of the $600,000 Brownfield Grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to benefit Marshall County including property on Garro St. where Habitat for Humanity will be building homes.
According to Surrisi, the grant funding is available for Phase I and Phase II assessments of environmental issues. That initial $600,000 grant will come to a close in October, but MACOG was awarded a new grant of $500,000 to continue those assessments.
Surrisi noted that Marshall County has benefited from grant funding for years, including a Coalition comprised of Marshall County, the City of Plymouth, and the Town of Bourbon. “We did a lot of good work with that. There have been some redevelopment projects that have happened because of the work that happened in those. Just wanted to bring that to your attention that this is going to be available.”
