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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPD-109-96THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON DN: FUNDING.GPA REPORT Meeting: General Purpose and Administration Committee File # Date: Tuesday, July 2, 1996 Res. aL- Report #: Subject: PD- 109 -96 File #: PLN 15.11 STATUS OF FUNDING O. WATERFRONT TRAIL FILE: PLN 15.11 Recommendations: By -law # It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee recommend to Council the following: 1. THAT Report PD- 109 -96 be received; 2. THAT the amount of $50,000.00 allocated as the Municipality of Clarington's contribution for 1996 -97 Waterfront Trail be used to proceed with Trail Signage, and improvements in the Wilmot Creek area; and 3. THAT the funds be drawn from Waterfront Trail Connection Public Works Capital Budget Account # 7603- 00120 -0516. 1. BACKGROUND 1.1 On March 18, 1996 Staff advised the General Purpose and Administration Committee of the 1996 -97 Work Program for the Waterfront Trail. The projects included: • finalizing incomplete alignments between Cobbledick Road and Bennett Road, the area east of Bond Head and Trail linkages through either the Bowmanville or Soper Creek Valleys; • interpretative and trail head signs; • improvements in the Wilmot Creek area (lands recently purchased by the Municipality). REPORT NO. PD- 109 -96 PAGE 2 1.2 The total budget for the projects was estimated at $198,000.00. Staff submitted the projects to the Waterfront Regeneration Trust and requested a 75% ($148,000.00) contribution from the Province. The sum of $50,000.00 was set aside in Public Works Budget as the Municipality's contribution. The projects were forwarded to the Provincial Treasury Board along with several trail projects from other municipalities for approval. 1.3 On June 13, 1996 Staff were advised that the Treasury Board only approved the projects associated with the Trail extension west of Stoney Creek. All other projects were denied funding. 2. REVISED 1996 -97 WORK PROGRAM 2.1 As a result of the Province's decision to deny funding for Clarington's Trail project, staff have had to revisit the 1996 -97 Trail Work Program as described in PD- 39 -96. 2.2 The Revised Work Program Staff will continue to work towards finalizing designs for the incomplete alignments, including negotiating with the landowners in the Bowmanville Creek Valley for a trail connection to downtown Bowmanville. Funds from the 1995 budget have been allocated for a trail spur from the Waterfront Trail at the Wilmot Creek Water Pollution Control Plant to Lake Ontario, on the Toronto Street road allowance. The estimated cost is $40,000. Staff anticipate the project to be tendered sometime in August, 1996 with a targeted completion date of November, 1996. In order to make some improvements to the Trail, as set out in the 96 -97 work program, Staff request that the $ 50,000.00 set aside as the Municipality's contribution for funding, continue to be allocated to complete Waterfront Trail REPORT NO. PD-1 09-96 PAGE 3 projects, including trail head and interpretative signage, minor landscaping, benches and waste receptacles along the Trail. Cc fZ�7TCO7 MITUOP.I+`? 3.1 The Trail was constructed as a minimal standard. Staff is committed to making continuous improvements to the Trail to benefit current users, and bring new users to the waterfront. As such, Staff recommend the sum of $50,000.00 allocated in Public Works budget be used to complete some of the 1996 -97 Trail projects. Respectfully submitted, Franklin Wu, M.C.I.P., R.P.P., Director of Planning and Development Step enh Vokes, Director of Public Works CRS *SV *FW *cc Attach. June 25, 1996 Reviewed by, `gip W, W. H. Stockwell Chief Administrative Officer