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CSFRF Annual Report 2023 |
Name of Organization | City of Molalla
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Agreement # | 8144
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Name of person writing this report? | Mac Corthell
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DAS Grant Analyst | Kemp
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Project Status | Completed Less than 50%
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Anticipated Completion Date | 06/01/2024
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Project Name | Chief Yelkus Park
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Project Description | This project is intended to create bike/ped access to the new Chief Yelkus park including: 1) design and construction of a bike/ped bridge across Bear Creek to provide access from the OR-211 bike/ped path recently constructed by ODOT; 2) design and construction of a meandering path along the Molalla Forest Road frontage of Chief Yelkus Park; 3) to complete pre-design studies on Chief Yelkus park itself; 4) to use excess funding for full park and roadway design.
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Promoting Equitable Outcomes | 1)Chief Yelkus Park is named for the last Chief of the Molalla Peoples. The park concept has been designed to honor the Molalla Peoples by utilizing native vegetation only, and providing a play structure designed to illustrate part of the Molalla’s Origin Story of the Bear and the Coyote. Additionally, the concept for this park includes sensory play elements, and full ADA access to pathways and amenities.
2)The bike/ped bridge and pathways that are part of this project have provided the ability for continuous, safe access north to south across Bear Creek which runs east – west and splits Molalla. The path/bridge portions of this project provide that. Additionally, the inclusion of a new park with a natural and indigenous theme is something provides a sort of honorarium for those who preceded us in this community.
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Promoting Equitable Outcomes continued | 3) The concept for this park was developed through a significant public process. The Parks and Recreation Committee solicited idea drawings from children and adults in the community. They also painted and sold old bowling pins to fund raise for the park, and educated everyone they met during this process on the park and it’s them.
4)ADA accessibility to the park and the pathway, sensory playground equipment, and indigenous theme in honor of the Molalla Tribe.
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Planned Work: Performance Measures & Indicators | 1)The conceptual designs have helped determine what type of park the community wants to see, involved large swaths of the community, and have informed the final design and construction. The engineering work is a necessary pre-design activity for the ultimate development of the park. The park design is the last step before construction.
2)A right of way encroachment north of the park site, but within the road/pathway design area has stalled the travel lane development portion of this project. Upon learning that the offending party would litigate this issue, City staff modified the project scope to ensure successful completion by eliminating the vehicle travel roadway design portion of the project.
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Planned Work: Performance Measures & Indicators continued | 3)I would modify it in the way we have modified it due to the pending litigation issue mentioned in #2. By focusing on design and construction of the bike/ped amenities connecting the park to OR-211 and all excess funding utilized for park pre-design and design activities.
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Measurable Outcomes | 1) N/A, project still in-work. 2) N/A, answer not "yes".
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Measurable Outcomes continued | 3) The answer is not yet, and the issue is time. We have modified the project scope to ensure delivery and entirely mitigate the possibility of sunken costs.
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Measurable Outcomes continued | No |
File Attachments |
| 20230715 City of Molalla PIF.pdf | (172k) |
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