Work begins to complete Chinook's sidewalk project

In mid-December several Chinook city council members and the mayor did a walk-through to inspect the city's downtown sidewalk improvement project. From the inspection a punch list was jointly developed to address several issues with the completed work. Siemens Engineering, the firm that did the design work, made a video and detailed descriptions of the repairs that needed to be made. At the city council meeting in early April, Mayor Keith Hanson said the contractor was planning to begin the final phase of the work when weather allowed. Frontier Lawn and Landscape, the contractor, began work to complete the punch list last week.

Mayor Hanson said he had no indication of when the work might be completed. Initially several ramps at cross walks had been removed and new ramps poured. This involved tearing out sections that did not meet specs of the project. A section in front of Shore's Floral was also removed and will be replaced. That was one of the first new sections poured as part of the project.

Hanson said, "There's a fairly long punch list, including cleaning of the fronts of some buildings where pours of concrete occurred." The city had withheld a final payment until the work was completed to specifications on the contracted work.