SUNBURY — Sunbury City Council advanced four pieces of legislation on Wednesday that were tabled during its April 27 meeting due to public concerns about transparency.
Councilman Damin Cappel proposed tabling two resolutions and two ordinances in order to give the public more time to reach out and ask questions.
After receiving more details from a services committee meeting on Wednesday, each of the four pieces of legislation were approved:
- Ordinance No. 2026.09: Awarding Dirt Dawg Excavating LLC. the contract for the Little Walnut Creek Interceptor Phase 2A.
- Resolution No. 2026.08: Establishing a capital projects fund for future roadway improvements near the Kinter Crossing commercial development site.
- Resolution No. 2026.11: Approving “geographic information systems (GIS) administration and support services with Mapped Out.”
- Ordinance No. 2026.08: Approving the final plat for Kintner Crossing Section 2.
City Engineer Carla Odebralski broke down Phase 2A of the Little Walnut Creek Interceptor project, a GIS services agreement with Mapped Out, the city’s 2026 road improvement plan, a franchise agreement with AEP and more during the services committee meeting.
Little Walnut Creek Interceptor 2A
Ordinance No. 2026.09 pertains to a contract with Dirt Dawg Excavating for the Little Walnut Creek sanitary sewer extension.
“Little Walnut Creek is a gravity sanitary solution that will offline [the pump station] and will allow gravity flow. It will also increase the capacity, which has been an issue with that pump station in this location,” Odebralski said.
Dirt Dawg placed a $591,853 bid for the project, and the city tacked on an additional 10% for contingency purposes. The city estimates the project to cost $613,248, but approved $650,000 as part of the contingency.
The city split the project into phases 2A and 2B because the county plans to build a roundabout at the intersection of Cheshire and Golf Course Roads next year.
For Phase 2A, the city will construct the sanitary sewer extension before the county builds the roundabout. Phase 2B will run further north of Cheshire Road and run parallel to the new Sunbury Parkway road.
“We broke [this project] into two sections so that we can accelerate this 560 linear feet [in Phase 2A] ahead of the construction of the roundabout,” Odebralski said.
The city’s anticipated timeline for Phase 2A is September 2026 through January 2027.
Phase 2B will eventually take the existing pump station on Cheshire Road offline.
GIS Services
Council approved a resolution for the city to contract with Mapped Out for GIS services.
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information.
Odebralksi said she is excited to get more information on the city’s underground assets in general, but highlighted some priority projects for this year.
One of those projects is a cemetery viewer.
“At the end of last year, we had a smaller contract with Mapped Out, around $5,000 and they started to overlay our cemetery,” Odebralski said.
“Eventually, we’d like to have that public-facing and interactive so you can select locations and get information from our website on it, but also search to see what locations are available.”
The other priority projects in the city’s Mapped Out contract are:
- Data prioritization on existing and new infrastructure
- Implementing a work order system on the public works side of things
Odebralski also hopes to one day have public-facing viewers for other assets, a “story map” for capital construction projects and more information for property owners about easements, etc.
Street improvements
The services committee discussed the city’s street improvement program for this year, and council conducted a second reading for an ordinance that would award Decker Construction’s bid for the project.
Below is a table outlining the city’s plan, which totals $1.3 million. Strawser and Cap Stone also submitted bids on the project.
Other council news
Council also approved or read the following resolutions/ordinances on Wednesday:
- Resolution No. 2026.08 [approved]: Established a capital projects fund for the future construction of roadway improvements for the Kintner Crossing commercial development site.
- Ordinance No. 2026.08 [approved]: Approved the final plat for Kintner Crossing Section 2.
- Ordinance No. 2026.12 [second reading]: This would execute a development agreement between Romanelli Schrock Road Investments LLC and the city of Sunbury.
- Ordinance No. 2026.14 [second reading]: This would grant a franchise agreement between the city and AEP, allowing the power company access to the city’s right-of-ways for power services. This would be a 25-year agreement should council approve it.
