Council tries to get Mill Creek Trail back on track

The Canton Council decided to keep the Mill Creek Trail project as its own project, let the masons set the new city hall’s cornerstone and chose a new auditing firm at last week’s council meeting.

Mark Spencer of MHS Planning and Design talked to the council about the Mill Creek Trail project, a 2.6-mile trail in the natural area around Mill Creek Reservoir off Arnold Paul Road. The project is funded in part through a Texas Parks and Wildlife Grant.

The first time the city went out for bids on the project, three companies vied for the business but their estimates were all too high, Spencer said. The project was scaled back and re-sent out in early July but no bids were received on the smaller scope of work, he said.

City Manager Lonny Cluck told council that he believed the smaller project garnered no interest because “June was very wet and (businesses) were behind and couldn’t take on new projects.”

Spencer suggested the council consider packaging the Mill Creek project with another TP&W grant the city has received for the Cherry Creek Trail project. “But you would have to wait a little longer,” he said.

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