Explanation
This ordinance is to authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to enter into contract with Greenlawn Farms, LLC to construct the Olentangy Water Trail - Tuttle Park Access.
Background: The Tuttle Park water trail access project will provide safe and sustainable canoe and kayak access to the growing Olentangy River Water Trail system. As a whole, the Olentangy Water Trail aims to provide urban access points, like Tuttle Park, to promote recreation and educate residents about their role in the relationship between a major vein of the Columbus landscape and the City itself.
Tuttle Park is a well-loved and highly used urban park bordered by the Olentangy River/Greenway Trail, Ohio State University, and an active urban neighborhood packed with families, students, and educators. This park provides an oasis of paved and natural surface trails shaded by woods and juxtaposed by a lively city pool and Community center directly servicing the surrounding neighborhood. The major impacts of this project will be to provide and promote access to the water trail from an urban neighborhood and to make this a low maintenance sustainable canoe and kayak launch site. The design and materials of this project will also aid in the protection of erosion and stabilize an existing dirt path along the river bank.
The Rec and Parks Department has worked closely with the Tuttle Community Recreation Council (CRC) which works with the local community to fund-raise and provide funding sources for programs and events at the Tuttle Community Center. The Tuttle CRC has supported an access point since the discussions started and will contribute funds to the construction of the water trail access point. They also received a $10,000.00 Stewardship contribution from REI Co-Op in 2017 for the purposes of helping to construct the Tuttle Park water trail access point. The costs for this project will be $54,486.00 with a contingency of $10,000 for a total of $64,486.00...
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