FORT PIERRE — An engineering proposal has been approved for the Tatanka Trail. Fort Pierre Mayor Gloria Hanson says the landscape has changed slightly since Council members added funding for the project to the budget…
Fort Pierre Public Works Director Rick Hahn says the city wanted more specifics to allow for budgeting considerations…
I-S-G is the engineering company putting the proposal together. Hanson says the company has worked with the city to spread paying for the proposal out over a five year span. Finance Officer Roxanne Heezen says part of the reason for the change is due to the first part of the project, which is placing a pedestrian bridge over a marina channel behind Drifters….
The total cost of the engineering proposal is approximately 315-thousand dollars. The Fort Pierre BID Board approved an additional 25-thousand dollars over a two-year time frame for the project. The BID Board has already committed 221-thousand dollars to the project.