(Beaver Dam) The Beaver Dam Common Council met Monday night and approved a number of different resolutions. On the docket was a resolution awarding the contract for the 2024 Street Maintenance Program. It was awarded to Scott Construction based in Lake Delton, who was the low bidder at $429,952.
The council also awarded Kartechner Brothers of Waupun, who was the lowest bidder at $224,761 for the Pearl Street Regional Storm Water Management Pond project.
This project includes construction of a regional storm water management pond within the city-owned parcel at the south terminus of Pearl Street. It also includes the realignment of storm sewers so that water runoff from the upstream 73-acre watershed is carried through the pond and discharged into the Beaver Dam River.
A resolution adjusting the Urban Area Boundary for the city was also approved. Alderman Zach Zopp explains.
“This is a boundary used by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to determine what pot of money to fund road projects,” says Zopp. “If you’re not inside the urban area boundary you’re in the rural pot of money…and this boundary that we’re redrawing assumes that there is some growth in the next ten years. These happen every ten years…this will be the map for the next years to help allocate funding between urban areas and rural areas.”
The common council also approved an easement agreement between Beaver Dam and Generac Power Systems. The business, which is building a new facility in the Highway 151 Business Park, requires access across city owned land to install and maintain stormwater, communications, and sanitary sewer infrastructure.
