COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council approved the awarding of a bid of over $1.7 million from Parrish Excavating of Quincy for the first phase of the Rotary Park improvement project Monday night.
Hamilton Hunter Builders of Fort Wayne submitted the other bid which was over $1.9 million.
The project is scheduled be done over four phases during the balance of this decade. Work on the first phase is expected to start in the spring,
The first phase work will involve the east part of Rotary Park covering a boat launch, parking areas, utilities, a boat wash, walkways and the demolition of a building as well as the north part which involves the Willow Street parking area, a channel overlook, and a connecting walkway.
City Manager Keith Baker says the boat launch eats up most of the first phase cost.
Emily Rissman and the rest of the Council decided to trim $66,000 from the overall cost of the project’s first phase by moving a new concrete plaza to display the “Gathering of Flags” memorials in Oak Grove Cemetery to a later phase.
In turn, fishing access on the north side of U.S. 12 would be part of the first phase.
Baker says the project is proposed to be funded using the City’s accumulated State cannabis tax revenues which are held in the City’s Capital Improvement Fund. The fund has just over $1 million in cannabis tax revenues and Baker says another $650,000 to $750,000 in additional cannabis tax revenues is anticipated from the State of Michigan in March.
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