Warsaw’s sidewalk project hits yet another snag

Driving down Richmond Road.

Just when it seemed that Warsaw’s long-running sidewalk project was finally moving along, it has hit yet another obstacle involving VDOT. And if the Town doesn’t come up with a solution, the issue could take a year to resolve, Warsaw Town Manager Joseph Quesenberry explained.

The TAP Grant project, as it is often called, is set to add and replace sidewalks along Richmond Road. This project has been in the works since a time before Quesenberry was town manager, and he has been on the job for over 7 years.

The recent good news, so it seemed, was that all of the needed easements had been acquired, an important step toward getting to the building phase. But the Town could hardly celebrate that milestone because they have been informed that the hundred-year-old fence in front of the Jones property, the historical home located adjacent to Colonial Collectibles, can’t be salvaged.

You would think that would be simple. But it’s not, Quesenberry revealed to Town Council this month.

Councilman Ogle Forrest questioned the conclusion that the fence can’t be taken down, moved, and put back. Forrest said he’s seen the fence damaged, sections taken out, repaired, and put back. “And you could not tell it. I know the people that worked on it. The fence is in good shape. It’s not rusting and falling apart,” he said.

Assistant town manager Missy Coates said the issue is the granite in the ground. The Town was told it has to come out and be replaced. The hardware and where it attaches to the granite are beyond repair, Coates and Quesenberry explained.

Addressing the current issues with the fence wasn’t in the original plan, and the Town has been informed that if the plans are modified in any way at this point, it would necessitate the project to be moved back to the Right of Way review phase within VDOT’s plan review office. That could take them up to one additional year for review and approval.

It may not take a full year, but the Town has been forewarned that it could, Quesenberry emphasized.

At a recent progress meeting on the project that included VDOT, the Town, and Resource International, the company that’s designing the sidewalks. Resource International engineers discussed that they reached out to a fence contractor to ask some technical questions about the situation.

That unearthed another problem. Now that Resource International has spoken to that company, the company is disqualified from bidding on the project to do the work. According to Quesenberry, the justification for that is that the company now has prior knowledge of the project.

Further, Warsaw has been told that the same is true with any fence company that the Town or its contracted engineering firm contacts to try to get advice on next steps forward, noted Quesenberry. The Town disagrees with this opinion, he added.

Nonetheless, Quesenberry said they are now trying to come up with a creative solution that doesn’t run the risk of stalling the project for a year.

One idea they have floated is to remove the fence work from the grant. But, if the Town takes the fence relocation out of the grant process, it will fall solely on us to cover the expenses incurred from the fence removal/relocation, etc. And the costs may be too high for us to cover without the grant reimbursing us at 80%, said Quesenberry.

There are many unknowns at the moment. But he said, “We’ll work through it like we have been and try to move the project forward as quickly as we can.”

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