HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-11-24.Applicant Email - Frontage Pathway site visitsFrom:Marilee Brown
To:Donbee6@gmail.com
Cc:Addi Jadin; Mitchell Overton; Ralph Zimmer; Danielle Scharf; robert bukvich; Jason Delmue; Betty Stroock
Subject:Frontage Pathway site visits
Date:Sunday, November 24, 2019 8:02:07 PM
Hello Don and TOP Committee,
It was a pleasure for us to present our Frontage Pathway project to the TOP Committeemeeting on November 15. We were deeply gratified and excited by the results of your rough
cut, awarding us a score of over 7.5.
I don’t know about you, but we were surprised and dismayed to learn how little TOP fundingremains. In the best of all worlds, we want all pending projects to be built. Unfortunately,
because our project is on the edge of town near the Bridgers (as the original resolution calledfor), we do not have access to other sources of City funding that projects located more in the
center of town have access to.
Therefore we want to assure you and the committee that we are committed to raising 50% (ormore if requested) of funding from other sources to construct a safe passage. We note that on
the previous 6 projects, the City allocated/awarded funding for approximately 76%, 85%,78%, 54%, 13.5%, and 88% of total projected costs. We are prepared to procure needed
funding once the City has declared its support for the project.
Because of weather constraints, your committee wisely decided to do individual site visitsyourselves and broke from the guidelines that suggest that the applicant be present for such
visits. We understand completely. But we also wanted you to know that we are available tomeet any of you on site or answer questions over the phone or by email.
If any of you have visited the Nelson Meadows site, you probably have seen that the pathway
has been started and the bridge footings have already been poured. Next summer, cyclists andpedestrians will be using the path and traveling to the east with no safe place to go. Because
of the safety issue, we feel that now is the best time to build the path.
We would very much appreciate an opportunity at the upcoming meeting on December 10th toaddress any of your questions and concerns, both verbally and visually.
Thank you for considering our project on its own merits. We appreciate your thoughtfulness.
If appropriate, could you please forward this letter to the rest of the committee?
Sincerely,
Marilee Brown
Marilee Brown, Chair
GAP - Galla10 Alliance for Pathways
406-579-5447
saferbozeman@gmail.com
www.frontagepathway.com