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$700 Million Bonding Cap Impacts
Projects with contracts/obligations that should continue:Public Trans
Walk Bridge design activities and rights of way acquisitions, CP 243 construction, and Dockyard construction
Hartford Line Construction (New Haven to Hartford) and Hartford Line Locomotive Overhauls
60 M8 option order
Highway and Bridge
Gold Star Bridge (SB), under construction using Ramp Up funds, est. $13m cash flow FY18
Atlantic Street, recently started, various state bond sources @ $64.7m total state cost (est.$20m cash flow in FY 18)
Waterbury bridges, out of federal NHS bridge penalty funds (lapse annually), $188m total project cost with state match (est. $5m state cash flow FY18)
Various projects using $81m NHS bridge penalty funds (lapse annually) (est. $15m state cash flow FY18)
Planned New Construction that could be canceled/delayed:
Public Trans
Walk Bridge construction program, including all advance utility relocation efforts, and bridge construction including East Avenue, Osborne Avenue and Fort Point Street Bridge projects
Hartford Line Construction (Hartford - Springfield) Including all stations north of Hartford (Newington, West Hartford, Windsor, Windsor Locks and Enfield)
New Haven Rail Yard East End Connector for CCO
Clinton Railroad Station
Merritt 7 Railroad Station
New London Track 6 Electrification
Rehabilitation of 4 Bridges on the Housatonic Line
Waterbury Signalization
Highway and Bridge (amounts represent total project cost)
Charter Oak Bridge, $228m, and associated I-91 Resurf/Bridge, $54m
Gold Star Bridge (NB), $97m
I-84 W. Htfd. Operational Lanes, 155-171, LGCT @ 65m
VIP Resurfacing Program @ $69m
VIP Pavement Preservation @ $25m
VIP Guiderail Program @ $5-10m
Stamford Route 1 Bridge #37, @ 20m
E. Htfd. Bridges (design-build), 171-431, ADV 9/13/16, CN @ 23m (going thru RFQ process now)
Bridge Repair Unit work/joints under FIF-Bridge @ $30m
I-84 W. Htfd. Signs, @ $13.25m
Pavement Preservation, various under FIF-Road @ $25m
159-188 Wethersfield Maintenance Facility @ $14m
Danbury Repair Facility @ $10m
ADA curb ramps @ $6m
Suspension/delay of projects in various stages of design that will not advance including:
Public Trans
New Haven Railroad Station Parking Garage
Stamford Railroad Station Parking Garage
Stamford Railroad Station Pedestrian Bridge
Orange Railroad Station
Madison Railroad Station – Pedestrian Bridge and Parking Garage
Barnum Railroad Station
CT Transit Hartford Facility Improvements
Highway and Bridge
I-84/CT 8 Waterbury, (alternatives analysis)
I-84 Viaduct, 63-716
I-84 Danbury Ex 3-8, 34-349,
7&15 Norwalk
Municipal Programs for which funding would be cancelled or delayed beyond FY 2018:
Town Aid Road Program - $30 million
LOTCIP – approximately $35 million
Local Bridge – approximately $5 million
Mystic YMCA breaks ground on $7.2 million project
It was moment for YMCA officials to thank the many volunteers who have worked over the past several years to bring the project to fruition as well as the 260 donors, led by $1.2 million from Sekhar and Archana Naik of Mystic, who funded the work. The new YMCA will be known as the Naik Family Branch of the Ocean Community YMCA.
John Paul Morales, a longtime YMCA member who serves as its chief volunteer officer, said the turnout for Thursday’s groundbreaking “shows that the community has an appetite to give back and open up their wallets to give to something they are passionate about.”
Morales said that many friendships and family memories have been created at the YMCA facility, which began as the Mystic Community Center 34 years ago before becoming a YMCA in 2003.
“The reason we’re here is to keep that spirit going forward,” he said, adding that despite aging infrastructure, that spirit has been maintained.
He told the crowd that the planning for the project began in 2013 and YMCA officials and volunteers visited other YMCAs and then took the best ideas from those facilities and tailored them for the Mystic community.
Despite what he called “tough times” in the state, Stonington First Selectman Rob Simmons said the town has allocated $100,000 toward the project, as well as waived the project’s $37,000 in building permit fees.
“Over the past 13 years the YMCA has not asked for a single dollar from the town despite the wonderful services they offer the community. We thought they deserved credit for that,” he said about the town’s donation.
YMCA President and CEO Maureen Fitzgerald said the expanded building will be able to serve more people and offer programs such as support groups and mentoring it can’t offer now because of space limitations. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE