BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Work on a planned project at Stockton Civic Club may have to wait while members find more cash, according to discussion with county commissioners at Tuesday’s work session.
Club representative Jason Padgett told commissioners that the community group had secured a 99-year lease on the property from the Baldwin County Board of Education and had been able to add three buildings to the park area. The next project includes a paved walking and running trail around an area that could be used as a football or soccer field, Padgett said. The park currently has a walking trail paved with wood chips, but maintenance is difficult, Padgett said.
He pointed out that the county uses the site as a polling place and the park has the only helicopter landing pad in the northern end of the county.
Padgett said that in past projects, the commission had contributed labor and equipment costs if groups paid for materials used in construction jobs. In this case, according to estimates by county staff members, equipment costs would be $9,910 with labor adding $7,020. If the trail is six feet wide, the asphalt would run an estimated $8,781, or $11,331 if the trail is nine feet wide. The total project would cost between $25,711 and $28,261, depending on the width of the trail.
Chairman Bob James told Padgett that commissioners had been consistent in denying similar requests from organizations since eliminating contingency funds under their discretion last year. Commissioners Charles “Skip” Gruber and Frank Burt said they would be willing for the county to absorb the equipment cost if the club could contribute some or all of the labor cost.
County Engineer Cal Markert said county work crews in the area could do the work while waiting on utilities workers to complete right-of-way work on nearby road projects.
“We don’t have the contingency funds,” Gruber said, “and we’ve got to recoup our labor costs.”
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