City Council Tuesday will consider adding over $1 million in funding for improvements to the Callahan House and to replace the Boston Avenue bridge.
The council will vote on the amendments to the city’s capital improvement fund at its regular meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Another $1 million to replace the Boston Avenue Bridge over the St.Vrain River is needed partly because of the rising cost of construction materials, according to a city staff report.
Replacing the Boston Avenue bridge is required as part of the city’s agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for final design and construction of the RSVP Izaak Walton Reach 2 - Boston Avenue to Sunset Street - channel improvements, the staff report states.
A grant from the Historic Colorado State Historical Fund will leverage existing capital improvement funding to provide $180,000 in expanded improvements to the historic Callahan House. Crews will restore curved leaded glass windows in the library, protect all leaded and stained glass windows with tempered glass, repaint the house and auto house to historically correct colors circa 1906 and repair and preserve the historic decorative driveway built for the first automobile in Longmont, the staff report states.
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