The Nebraska City City Council is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. on Jan. 15 with an agenda that includes repairs to the timber bridge on Steinhart Park Road.

The agenda includes vendor permit applications and allowing NCTC to collect space and utility fees.

A task order for a $59,500 asphalt overlay will also be discussed. Work is expected on 10th Street from First to Seventh Corso.

JEO has also prepared a task order for the Steinhart Park bridge repair project bidding. Meeting materials say the city budgeted $100,000 for construction and engineering. After a 2018 bridge inspection, a lean of the glulam arch beams was noted.  The city reached out to Erickson Engineering, a Minnesota firm that initially designed the bridge, but was told that since the company was not involved in the construction it would not be involved any further analysis without compensation estimated at $17,500.

The timber bridge was built in 1998 with a 50-year anticipated life span.

Nebraska City Construction and Facilities Manager Marty Stovall told the city council that a solution is needed. The bridge is nearly half-way through its life span and Stovall said it will not make it to its original design of 2048 without repairs.

The creative district and construction progress at the Veterans Memorial Building are also on the agenda.