The contractor's price rose $400K since last year.
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Some much-needed improvements at Horseshoe Bend has potentially thrown a wrench in the City of Page’s budget.
About a year ago the city hired a designer to give them an estimate for expanding and paving the parking lot at Horseshoe Bend. The firm estimated it would cost around $1.6 million. But now that the city is ready to move forward with the design the design firm has revised their estimate to just over $2 million dollars, which has potentially left the city in a financial bind.
This information was presented to the public during last week’s special council meeting during which then-city manager Crystal Dyches presented to council the recommended budget for fiscal year 2018/19.
To cover the $400,000 deficit for the Horseshoe Bend parking lot the city may have to reduce funding from its capital improvements projects and possibly from some of its departments including law enforcement, fire, public works and community development. Community development may have as much as $177,000 slashed from its budget, and public works may have as much as $300,000 removed from its budget which had been earmarked for road repair scheduled to begin this summer.
Mayor Bill Diak told the Chronicle Tuesday that several of this year’s scheduled street repairs will still proceed as planned.