Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell dresses up in his favorite Halloween costume: Spooky City Manager. When we show up at his door, we get the best treat of all – a city memo!
only minor delays!
Hip hip hooray
The contractor continues to dedicate two crews to the replacement of the existing storm sewer on North State Street, from Penacook Street to Granite Avenue, Aspell writes.
The pipe crews have been making excellent progress in this last segment, and they expect to have the drainage component complete in the next couple of weeks. Not a member of the pipe crew? Consider joining the cigar club instead.
With the new vertical granite curbing installed on the east side of North State Street, the sidewalks, driveways and private walks will be graded and paved as weather permits. Vertical sidewalks? What’s next, a normal, two-lane road?
This work will be occurring from Call Street to Curtice Avenue. One-lane conditions will persist in this area with minor traffic delays to be expected.
round and round you go
Watch out for peeps
The dashed yield lines have recently been painted at the North State Street/Franklin Street roundabout, Aspell writes. Construction of the city’s first octagonalabout remains on hold, however.
Vehicles approaching the roundabout must slow down before crossing this line and yield to any traffic that is already in the roundabout. After crossing this line, vehicles operating within the circular roadway have the right of way and may continue to their desired exit lane. Doing laps in the roundabout is not recommended.
But, when a pedestrian is crossing, all vehicles approaching that particular crosswalk must yield to the pedestrian. These simple rules help maintain the “slow but steady” traffic operation that makes roundabouts both safe and efficient. This announcement is brought to you by not being a jerk to pedestrians.
spring cleaning
Grant comes through
The New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority awarded the city’s Community Development Block Grant Application on Oct. 18 in the amount of $500,000 to support expansion of the Boys and Girls Club at Kimball Park, Aspell writes.
The project includes a 5,000-square-foot expansion, extensive interior renovations, and reconstruction of the club’s parking lot. The project will allow the club to expand its capacity from 180 children to 220 children per day.
Approximately 76 percent of the club’s clientele are from low/moderate income households. But 100 percent of the clientele is awesome.
The total project cost is $3.7 million and the grant is the final piece of the financing package needed to make the project ready for construction. The Club plans to start construction in the spring, or as it’s otherwise known, the two weeks between winter and summer.
