$2.3 Million Works Budget is Proposed
Daily Review, Apr. 23, 1965
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A public works budget which includes $2.3 million in capital improvement projects for the 1965-66 fiscal year was submitted to the Hayward Public Services Commission last night by Public Works Director Edward Phillips.
The largest project is the first stage of a three-year program to widen Harder Road. The proposed budget shows an estimated cost of $320,400 for widening the section from Santa Clara, Street to Gading Road. Money for part of the Harder Road job had been in this year's budget but the funds were switched to the Harder Road extension.
PROJECTS
Other major street projects in the budget are: Widening A Street from Mission Boulevard to Watkins Street, $75,600; reconstruction of Soto Road from Harder Road to Jackson Street, $114,000; and construction of the Industrial Parkway interchange at the Nimitz Freeway, a joint city-state project $275,000 rebudgeted from this year.
Acquisition of right-of-way for the widening of Mission Boulevard from Jackson Street to Sycamore Avenue has been moved from this year's budget into 1965-66. The estimated cost, including $30,000 for relocation of tennis courts at Memorial Park, is $130,000.
The budget includes $20,000 for railroad crossing gates at both A Street and Winton Avenue on the Southern Pacific tracks, but the item would be held, the budget states, if the cily council authorizes bond issues for overcrossings.
SIGNALS
Other street projects are: design and right-of-way for Industrial Parkway West from Hesperian Boulevard to Ruus Road, $55,000; intersection realignment and signals at Hathaway Avenue and W. A. Street, $37,000; construction of Enterprise Avenue west from Clawiter Road, $57,700; and construction of Fifth Street from D Street to E Street, $20,000.
In addition, the budget provides $17,000 for traffic signals at Jackson Street and Amador Street and $15,000 for signals at Mission Boulevard and Fletcher Lane.
The budget includes $20,000 to align the Memorial Park entrance with Pinedale Court and
$29,000 to revise the Memorial Park parking lot. Both projects are in connection with the Mission Boulevard widening.
Projects relating to the city water system include $72,000 for a second fluoridation station, rebudgeted from this year; $125,000 for a reservoir at the 1,000-foot level in the Hayward Highlands, most of which is being rebudgeted from this year; and $134,000 for a Russell City water main from W. Winton Avenue to Depot Road in connection with the Russell City redevelopment project.
ENGINEERING
Other water projects are right-of-way and preliminary engineering for a reservoir on the hillside at the end of Tennyson Road, $25,000 and right-of-way and preliminary engineering for the relocation of the reservoir near Foothill High School, $6,000.
A sewer interceptor from W. Winton Avenue through the Russell City project to the city treatment plant is estimated at $170,000. An interceptor from Curtis Street through Russell City will cost an estimated $75,000.
Other sewer projects are: revisions at the Valle Vista pump station, $170,000; replacement of the Marie Drive sewer main, which is now held together with rubber tubing, $10,000; and abandonment of the Tiegen Drive pump station and tying the area into the Ward Creek sewer interceptor, $31,000.
TERMINAL
Improvements listed at the Hayward Air Terminal are a maintenance building, $30,000: a fire station, $55,000; and construction of an access road from W. Winton Avenue to the Skywest Industrial Park, $101,000.
The proposed budget also provides $100,000 for a shops building at the city corporation yard and $5,000 for a radiological defense center. Both projects would be dropped from the budget if the council includes them in a bond issue.
The public services commission reviewed the list last night but withheld making a recommendation to the city council. A recommendation probably will be made at next month's meeting.
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