2024 township safety path contract awarded
By Dana Casadei
The 2024 Jan Roncelli Safety Path Program Contract was awarded to Audia Concrete Construction, Inc. with a unanimous vote of approval at the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, July 22.
Audia Concrete Construction, Inc. was one of five bids received by the township for this specific project, coming in at $647,101, the lowest of the five, and nearly $66,500 less than the estimate of $713,600 from Hubbell, Roth, & Clark, Inc., the township's engineers.
HRC also did the reference check with Audia Concrete Construction, Inc., a company they’ve worked with before, and found them to be satisfactory for this project.
“That sounds like great news,” said trustee Chris Kolinski. “Kudos to you all for getting not only good bids but good bids that were under budget… great news for the taxpayer.”
This particular project that the Milford-based construction company will complete will be along the Telegraph Road segment of the Jan Roncelli Safety Path, that goes from Humphry Avenue to the Clinton River Bike Trail, the preferred path the board selected back at their meeting on September 26, 2023.
The path selected along Telegraph Road – also called the “Paper Road” – will allow people to walk through the wooded area that is the right-of-way for Desiax Avenue on the north side of Lafayette Avenue. This wooded area will have decorative park-style lighting that will run parallel to the safety path through the Paper Road wooded portion of the Jan Roncelli Safety Path.
This route will be a total of 3,011 lineal feet.
