LAKE PLACID – At a special meeting, the village board approved to borrow more than $1.73 million for construction projects and capital equipment purchases.

The biggest-ticket item was the approval of a $1 million bond to conduct stormwater and sewer system improvements for the east side of Mirror Lake. The construction will include 1,259 feet of new stormwater and drains on the east side of the lake and 450 feet of the same alongside Parkside Drive.

The bond will help the village to finance the stormwater drainage work it awarded to Kubricky Construction at last week’s regularly scheduled board meeting. The estimated cost of the Kubricky project is $743,652. The work will replace the existing stormwater drains along the southeastern shore of the lake, approximately from the Lake Placid Club boathouse to around the Hampton Inn.

The system the village plans to install on Main Street will have a bio-retention system that will process stormwater, most of it dispersing through the ground. Excess stormwater will go through a new 30-inch tube, likely to a holding pond on the Lake Placid Club’s golf course property. All of the village’s watershed goes into the Chubb River and from there into the West Branch of the AuSable River. away from Mirror Lake.

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Beach House parking lot

In that same vicinity on Parkside Drive, the board approved to borrow $85,000 to construct a 10- or 11-car parking lot at the village’s Beach House property. The lot would be located on the street side of the Beach House, where a lawn is currently.

Mayor Craig Randall said the parking lot would help alleviate parking congestion on Parskide Drive. The village added 18 spots designated for permit holders on Parkside Drive from Main Street to the Mirror Lake beach entrance in May as part of adding 52 total permitted spots village wide.

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Power House Road land

The village also agreed to borrow for a $125,000 purchase of a section of land along Power House Road near Sentinel Road.

Randall said the purchase will give the public better access to the recreational trail system at Power Pond near the Chubb River, including more convenient parking. The trails are used for walking and running, and cross-country skiing in winter.

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Equipment purchases

The board also approved to borrow $520,000 for four different pieces of equipment: a $225,000 plow-sander and dump truck, a $153,000 front-end loader, a $70,000 Bobcat sweeper, a $72,000 excavator with attachments and a $70,000 Bobcat sweeper.

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4-0 vote

Randall, Deputy Mayor Art Devlin and Trustees Jason Leon and Scott Monroe all approved the four bond resolutions. Trustee Peter Holderied was absent. Village Department of Public Works Superintendent Brad Hathaway was present.

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Terra cotta sidewalks?

During the meeting, Randall and Devlin said that in recent weeks, members of the community expressed interest in maintaining the red coloring of Main Street sidewalks.

“Some folks out there are thinking keeping a red color is desirable,” Randall said.

At a board meeting last month, the board decided to move forward with a plan of installing new Cambridge paver stones around the village’s Main Street business corridor and surrounding Mirror Lake. The proposed color was chestnut, the same color and type of stone currently at the walkway leading from Parkside Drive to the village beach.

The decision was made to use these Cambridge stones in the future. Devlin said the DPW said they were much more durable than the current red bricks on Main Street.

Devlin said keeping the red color up and down Main Street could be possible with a terra cotta color of the Cambridge stone, which is a pattern of four different sized square bricks, though the terra cotta color would have to be purchased in a large quantity.