DEPARTMENT: Capital Improvements Management Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S) IMPACTED:
Council District 2
SUBJECT: Contract Award: Pittman-Sullivan Park
SUMMARY:
An ordinance accepting the lowest responsive bid and awarding a construction contract, including four (4) additive alternates, in the amount of $437,661.00 authorized payable to HSC Electric, Inc., for construction of Pittman-Sullivan Park, a 2012-2017 General Obligation Bond funded Project, located in Council District 2.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Project Background
This Project is part of the 2012-2017 Bond Program for Parks, Recreation and Open Space Improvements. The proposition approved $650,000.00 for general park improvements, to include a walking trail development located in District 2.
This Project provides general park improvements and development of a multi-use walking trail, shade structures, lighting, seating, and historical interpretive signage. Initially called East End Park, it covers approximately 18 acres and was once the site of a gravel pit. The park name was changed to Pittman-Sullivan Park in honor of two young neighborhood men who were killed during World War I: Dewey L. Pittman and Edward Burke Sullivan. Dedicated in 1920, the Park originally featured a sunken garden enclosed by a rock wall and was accessed by stone stairways.
A significant free standing decorative column currently exists on the site, which prominently displays a recognition plaque dedicated in memory of the two heroes. At the request of the community to replicate this column, the project will build two additional interpretive columns featuring a semblance of the lone column's scale and detail along the new trail.
By 1960, the sunken garden was removed and filled in to allow for other park improvements. Various recreational facilities have since been added, including tennis courts, a baseball field and grandstands. The park's use has continuously increased with the add...
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