NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A local contractor's bid was approved for a pair of resurfacing projects along K-61 in Hutchinson by the Hutchinson City Council at their Tuesday meeting.
"The City applied for the CCLIP program with the state a couple of years in a row," said Jeff Schenk with Engineering. "We were awarded on July 15, 2020 and July 19, 2021, two separate projects. One of them was to redo the 17th and 61 intersection. The participating part is the section inside of the state right of way. Then, we were also going to extend onto 17th, which was done the last time we did this project, which will extend from Waldron Street to the railroad tracks just east of Walmart. That section is considered non-participating. We cover all of that, but it's bid at the same time. It comes out of our arterial budget. We were awarded that one. The second one is doing northbound only K-61 from US 50 to Avenue G and then the Avenue G and K-61 intersection."
Only the northbound side of that project was done to maximize the state match. They will attempt later this year to get matching funds for the same section heading south. The City was allowed to combine the projects and tried to bid it last summer, but only got one bid, so they then rebid the project and the low bid of the two they got the second time around was from APAC Kansas in the amount of $1,134,249.60.
"This will be funded partially out of our CCLIP reserve, the arterial reserve," Schenk said. "There is a little bit of short funds, just because the bids were just a little bit over the engineer's estimate, which meant just a little bit over the $600,000 that KDOT will reimburse us. We have to cover that, that we are short on our CCLIP reserve, which is about $8000. That will come out of the arterial reserve, as well."
KDOT agreed with the staff recommendation and the council's decision.
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