February 6, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 11 Bids for Parker Place, Greenwood lower than expected Plans are moving closer to reality for drainage improvements to Parker and the Greenwood/Central avenues/park and ride projects in Midland Park. The borough council at its last meeting awarded bids for the two projects at prices lower than anticipated, according to Borough Clerk/Administrator Addie Hanna. The Parker Place drainage project, under consideration for several years, was awarded to Trino Associates of Paramus at a cost of $118,700. He was the lowest of 16 bidders, which ranged up to $263,788. The contractor did the Wostbrock Lane reconstruction project last year. Parker Place residents have been complaining about flooding conditions on their street for years. The blocklong street behind the cemetery has no storm drains, and the existing curbing is too low to contain the runoff from Post Street that originates on Godwin Avenue. Plans call for constructing 10 catch basins and connecting storm drains from Post Street to Cross Avenue to Paterson Avenue. Sidewalks on the west side of the street will be raised and replaced, curbing will be installed and new driveway aprons will be constructed. The project will be done in early spring and take about three weeks to complete, according to DPW Superintendent Rudy Gnehm. He said paving along the curb line and trenches will be done this year, but that complete road repaving will take place as part of the 2014 road resurfacing program to allow for settling. Original estimates when the project was first proposed in 2008 ran to $250,000. Since the project did not qualify for any outside grants because the street is not a connector road, the council put funds aside to fund it over several years. It was also able to redirect to it the funds previously earmarked for renovations to the second floor of town hall, when that project was scaled back in 2011 and the offices were relocated to the first floor of the building. The Greenwood Avenue project, at a price of $307,268.90, was awarded to Zuccaro, Inc. of Saddle Brook, the lowest of 15 bids, which ranged up to $565,862. Original estimates had run to $365,000. Zuccaro was the contractor responsible for the Wortendyke area streetscape project in 2003. Work will include repaving the street from Birch Street to the Wyckoff border and delineating and paving the commuter parking area adjacent to the bus station off Central Avenue, which serves five bus lines. This area, which is now unimproved, is used for resident-parking only for nine cars in its present condition. The work will be funded through NJ Department of Transportation grants from 2010 and 2011. The 2010 grant was $150,000, with $146,000 received in 2011. An additional $90,000 was unexpectedly allocated for the parkand-ride area in mid-2011, allowing the project to be done all at once. Greenwood Avenue is heavily traveled and serves as a connector link from Route 208. The road was reconstructed with NJDOT funds awarded in 1997 and 1998. At that time, the job, which included major drainage work, was done in two phases because of the cost.