Cookeville City Council ready to approve the next step of leveling the pads for the construction of Cane Creek pickleball courts.
The city received a change order of an estimated $42,700 from the contractor. The contractor would resume operations on August 21 and have the project completed by October 13. City Manager James Mills said most of the delays in constructing the pickleball courts are nobody’s fault.
“We had the wettest June and May that I can ever remember, and we just couldn’t get in there and do the removal, first do the testing,” Mills said. “If we had gone in and rolled some of those days, the whole court would have surged.”
The change order was significantly lower than the original estimated $150,000, as the city’s Public Works Department will be delivering rock and hauling off excavated soils. Mills said the city would have to keep in mind that the public works department would be out of pocket for three days during the project.
“So it’s public works with their trucks over there hauling this stuff off,” Mills said. “So you guys know this as well as I do, we have a lot of projects going on right now. So we have committed through this that Mary Beth is gonna pull her crews off any other project we are working on to go do this.”
Council Member Ali Bagci said having a completion date of October 13 instead of December makes the project a little bit easier of a pill to swallow. Mills said we are at the dry point in the year and that he is hopeful to get the project finished.
The City Council will vote to approve the change order at the council meeting on Thursday.
