DCA-1 P-03K-01 Within rural Baston Trailer Park its roadways are often impassable with rain events for the residents. Wilkes County proposes to widen and pave the dirt main roadway (2,300 l.f.) and all three dirt loop roadways (1,550 l.f.) to the southwest and will provide drainage with ditches and culverts. These roadways are the only ingress/egress to the Trailer Park for the 21 households of 63 beneficiaries, 100% of whom have LMI. Quantities: Grading & Fill for Building Up Road, 6,781 CY; Triple Chip Seal & Asphalt Prime, 6,322 SY each; Erosion & Sedimentation Control; 3 Drainage Culverts RCP 18" 120 l.f. and 2 Drainage Culverts 200
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DCA-1
P-03K-01 Within rural Baston Trailer Park its roadways are often impassable with rain events for the residents. Wilkes County proposes to widen and pave the dirt main roadway (2,300 l.f.) and all three dirt loop roadways (1,550 l.f.) to the southwest and will provide drainage with ditches and culverts. These roadways are the only ingress/egress to the Trailer Park for the 21 households of 63 beneficiaries, 100% of whom have LMI.
Quantities: Grading & Fill for Building Up Road, 6,781 CY; Triple Chip Seal & Asphalt Prime, 6,322 SY each; Erosion & Sedimentation Control; 3 Drainage Culverts RCP 18" 120 l.f. and 2 Drainage Culverts 200 l.f. CMP 15".
Loop #1
Loop #2
Loop #3
11 of 21 households are located on the 3 loop roads
Summary, Baston Trailer Park
Total length of Street Improvements: 3,850 LFMain Road: 2,300 LF Loops: 1,550 LF (#1 500, #2 550, and #3 500)
Surveys completed by long term resident in ParkBeneficiaries, 21 HH, 63 beneficiaries, 100% LMI
Tract of Land: 16.84 acres
Severity of Need: Road is nearly impassable in rain events and for one week after. Loop Two stays impassable on one side for weeks. Frequently, vehicles get stuck. Residents moved due the deteriorated roadway, flooding, muddy yards, children having to walk to main road rather be picked up at residence.
School Buses make 5 trips per dayMedical bus takes elderly patients for dialysis and other treatments
Documentation letters citing incidents from Wilkes County–1. Transportation Department, Director (all school buses)2. Superintendent, Board of Education3. Hulin Transportation (medical transport)4. Sheriff’s Office 5. Emergency Management 6. Fire Department7. Department of Family and Children’s Services8. Public Works9. US Postal Service
Documentation: Video from Cell Phone on DVDSchool bus got stuck and pulled out, January 2015
Resident Letters: 11 handwritten
Baston Road is, by far, the worst dirt road in our county and I would even go further to say it is the worst dirt road I have ever traveled and I have lived in rural Florida, north Georgia and south Georgia. This road, located off Danburg Road (Highway 44), is a frequently used road by our county school buses. Two buses (one regular education and one special education) in the mornings travel down all the way to the end and back to pick up students at several stops and then repeat the same route in the afternoons. A third bus also goes down all the way to the end and back to drop off students who attend our after-school program four days a week. As you can see, this road is traveled frequently on a daily basis and it is in horrible condition. The incredible amount of rain we’ve had recently has caused ruts and cavities to grow larger and caused travel to become even more treacherous for our buses, students and drivers.
My drivers frequently complain about almost getting stuck and having to rock the bus back and forth to get free creating a safety issue for the students on the bus as well as any parent or young child possibly standing on the outside. In fact, one morning in February of this year, a driver was making the turn-around after picking up students on Baston Road and the bus got stuck in the mud. We had to take him a spare bus from the shop and the students (pre-k through 12 grade) had to walk 40-50 yards from the stuck bus to the spare because we couldn’t get down the road any further to be able to turn the bus around. Students’ shoes and jeans had mud all over them in addition to the fact they had to walk that distance in the pouring down rain. This type of scenario is not acceptable. There are deep ruts running through the entire road from beginning to end as well as deep pits and holes. On that particular day, there was a significant “pond” covering at least four fifths of the road in one spot and in that spot, off to one side, sits a tree stump. If the driver tries to maneuver the hole full of water, he or she risks hitting the stump. In addition, the vegetation is so close to the narrow road on both sides, that when drivers try to maneuver the ruts, it scrubs the buses’ exteriors.
Baston Road is not a particularly long road, but it is a very congested road with many residents along its length. I have also had to reroute a bus that should go in there due to logistics, but because he has a student in a wheelchair, I have determined this road is too rough for that student to endure the trip in and out. Therefore, I have had to assign another bus to that road and stop even though it is not in her normal route area.
From Transportation Director’s Support Letter who also documented the Bus Incident in January 2015
Hulin Transportation
Excerpted from Resident Support Letter:
I have lived here 4 ½ years at 397 Baston Trailer Park. Both sides of loop are packed with holes and mud. My truck is a Toyota Highlander 2008 that got stuck on the wet land when it was raining. My friend pulled me out with a new pickup truck from the grass because the road was so bad. This was 6-7 months ago in August 2014.
Also, next door to me a handicap kid rides the short bus. The bus driver lets him off at the end of the road at the loop because she does not want to go thru the holes where the water is. (383 Baston)
The people who lived there before them had a small car. They moved 4 months ago also, one of the reasons is because the car did get stuck, and they had to get a jeep to pull them out. (383 Baston)
The Baptist Church bus would pull in my yard on Wednesdays because they did not want to go around.
P.S. My Step dad was driving too fast about 30 mph & his car hit a bump & hit a tree. Someone cut the tree down and painted the stump orange.
TOTAL PROJECT COST BREAKDOWN
Acquisition $ 10,000.00
Street Improvements Construction $390,720.00
Street Engineering and Inspection and Permitting $ 46,886.00
Administration ($27,500 + $1,000 CM + $1,000 audit) $ 29,500.00
Contingencies $ 24,894.00
Land Survey (cash match) $ 9,000.00
Move Fill Dirt (in-kind leverage) $ 15,596.00
TOTAL PROJECT COSTS $ 526,596.00
CDBG Funds Requested $ 500,000.00
Wilkes County Cash Match, Land Survey + Grant Admin $ 10,000.00
Wilkes County Leverage (audit) $ 1,000.00
Wilkes County, In-kind leverage Move Fill Dirt to Baston Trailer Park road construction site
$ 15,596.00
TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING $ 526,596.00
2015 CDBG Awarded for $500,000 to Wilkes County for Street Improvements to Baston Trailer Park
