Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve Water-Related Repairs at Waveny House, Work To Start in June

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Repairs for moisture and water infiltration problems at Waveny House will start in June, with the hope of finishing “phase one” of the project in October, officials say. On Tuesday, the Board of Selectmen approved a $653,775 contract with New Haven-based G.L. Capasso Inc. to address Waveny’s ongoing leakage issues. The selectmen also approved $14,400 for interior kitchen repairs within the contract. “This approach will fix 95% of the leaks, and we will be able to reassess and do a deeper dive if further repairs are necessary,” Department of Public Works Senior Engineer Joe Zagarenski told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. First Selectman Dionna Carlson and Selectmen Steve Karl and Amy Murphy Carroll voted 3-0 in favor of the contract.

Government

Town To Replace East Avenue Sidewalks

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Town officials are planning to replace all sidewalks on East Avenue, starting downtown at Main Street and running east all the way to Route 123. The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a $34,500 contract with a Bridgeport-based company to survey and design the sidewalks. The overall project itself is projected to cost about $1.1 million, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. 

There are sidewalks on both sides of East Avenue running east from the downtown to Summer Street, and then it’s only on the north side to Route 123/New Norwalk Road, Mann said. “We’re looking to design it in whole and then look to piece it out, the thought being that we’ll likely do from Cherry Street to Main Street since that’s the closest to the downtown, and then work our way out,” he said during the regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “And the thought is that at present we might look for a grant to take care of the stretch from Cherry to New Norwalk Road.”

Specifically, Mann said, the town would seek a “Local Transportation Capital Improvement Program” or “LOTCIP” grant.

Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve Irrigation Work at Saxe and Conner Fields

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Town officials on Tuesday approved a $382,470 contract for irrigation work at two New Canaan Public Schools playing fields. The irrigation system that serves Saxe and Conner fields uses the same well for its water, according to Parks & Recreation Director John Howe. The work will involve replacing “all the sprinklers, pipes, and the control system of both safe and Connor,” Howe told the Board of Selectmen at its regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. First Selectman Dionna Carlson and Selectmen Steve Karl and Amy Murphy Carroll voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with White Plains, N.Y.-based National Lawn Sprinklers. The company also has been awarded a Mead Park irrigation project, Howe said.

Business

Town To Focus on Ridding Elm Street of Double-Parking Trucks

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Once the oversized dumpsters in the parking lot behind The Playhouse are moved to a better area, and there’s also a new ramp connecting that lot with the alley that runs alongside Le Pain Quotidien, enforcement officers will focus on getting double-parking delivery trucks off New Canaan’s main drag downtown. As it is, delivery trucks exacerbate congestion on the one-way stretch of Elm Street throughout the day. That segment of Elm and the commercial block of South Avenue both will change to paid parking later this summer, reversing a decades-old system. (When that happens, the town will convert the paid spots in the Park Street Lot to free.)

“We are going to be trying to push them, and we do that now,” Parking Manager Stacy Miltenberg said Tuesday during a regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. 

She continued: “We try to move them. We try to direct them where we can.

Board of Selectmen

Town Approves $195,000 Contract To Dredge Pond at Nature Center

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Town officials this week approved an approximately $195,000 contract to dredge a pond at the New Canaan Nature Center. A build-up of material can be seen beneath the surface of the “Kiwanis Pond” at the town-owned Oenoke Ridge property, located down a short path from the Visitors Center, so it’s time for a dredge, according to Tiger Mann, director of the Department of Public Works. “That starts to affect the flora and fauna that are around it,” Mann told members of the Board of Selectmen at their regular meeting, held Tuesday at Town Hall and via videoconference. “This has been on our radar for quite some time, and we’ve been pushing it a little bit. Now it’s to the point where we need to bring it forward.”

First Selectman Dionn Carlson and Selectman Steve Karl voted 2-0 in favor of a $195,456 contract with New Canaan-based Peter Lanni Inc. to do the work.