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mmaroney@sungazette.com Before approving an accessible ramp construction Thursday at City Hall, City Council learned the entire ramp, automatic doors and elevator project will cost about $500,000. Council approved the ramp contract with Landserve Inc. in the amount of $164,516. That company will build the ramp at its factory, a pre-cast concrete ramp, and then it’ll be put up on the West Fourth Street side of City Hall. Original design was by Gannett-Fleming two years ago, said Jon Sander, ci...

An accessible ramp construction project on the north side of City Hall of about $165,000 was given a positive recommendation Tuesday by City Council’s finance

Some city parks require accessibility upgrades, with closer inspection anticipated in coming weeks. City parks require some updates to meet requirements under the Americans with Disability Act, according to information given to the city Accessibility Advisory commission this week. For example, Youngs Woods on Railway Street requires pathway, bench, mulch and parking signage improvements, said Joseph Gerardi, city codes administrator. Newberry Park needs different kinds of mulch, benches, signs,...

mmaroney@sungazette.com The city of Williamsport is going out to bid Friday to receive contractors’ offers to build the accessible ramp at City Hall on the West Fourth Street entrance. Jon Sander, city engineer, has placed an advertisement in the Sun-Gazette and plans to hold a live bid meeting. The ramp is a requirement of a settlement of a pending lawsuit in U.S. Middle District Court by advocates for the disabled. Estimated costs for the construction of the ramp are between $100,000 to $50...

A city man who is sight-impaired has a beef with River Valley Transit. Timothy West, a voting member of the new Williamsport Accessibility Advisory Commission

mmaroney@sungazette.com Williamsport City Council approved a construction contract of $628,460 awarded to Dakronics Thursday night for the business to build a video scoreboard for use at Bowman Field. Dakronics is a company based in Brookings, South Dakota. The digital scoreboard will either be installed in time for this year’s Crosscutters’ baseball season in late May or in autumn, Jon Sander, city engineer, said. Additionally, the Crosscutters are contributing $100,000 toward the constru...

mmaroney@sungazette.com City Council’s finance committee gave a positive recommendation Tuesday for the city administration to hire Daktronics to create and install a scoreboard at Bowman Field. Council is expected to review the $628,460 bid for the proposed contract on Thursday night. The cost is about $60,000 more than several years ago when a state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant was approved as part of Bowman Field upgrades, Councilman Adam Yoder said. Part of the city obli...

mmaroney@sungazette.com City Council’s Ad Hoc City Hall Committee met Tuesday and honed in on two final options — to remain at the current City Hall or to renovate office space the city owns at Trade and Transit Centre I or II. “I think we are making progress to the point of completion for the committee,” said Councilman Adam Yoder, its chairman. Short of a funding plan, which is estimated to be $4 million to $5 million for either option, the committee has narrowed its intent to either ...

mmaroney@sungazette.com City Council’s finance committee on Tuesday gave a positive recommendation for council to authorize hiring Dewberry Engineering Inc. to redesign Willow Street in the city East End. Dewberry, if approved by council Thursday, would be paid $160,000 to do engineering design work making the one-way alley that lies between East Third and East Fourth streets and runs for a quarter-mile between Basin and Market streets, into a pathway for pedestrians and bicyclists. It would...

mmaroney@sungazette.com MARK NANCE/Sun-Gazette Potholes and cracked pavement are shown on West Third Street between Walnut and Campbell Streets. About one mile of Third Street west of Mulberry Street to Seventh Avenue is scheduled for resurfacing and addition of curb cuts at intersections this summer. “We are planning to resurface — not reconstruct — the street,” said Chris King, a state Department of Transportation District 3 spokesman during Monday’s Williamsport Area Transportation...