Emergency Access Route Update
- Residents of the Genesee Fire Protection District voted in May 2025 to approve the construction of the Emergency Accss Route. Since that time, the GFPD Board of Directors has been diligently working towards constructing this road.
Emergency Access Route Map
- To date, GFPD has worked with legal counsel, bond counsel, bond underwriters, and others in order to continue the progress towards building the road. As of July 2025, GFPD has prepared and published a Request for Proposal soliciting construction bids for the road. In response to this RFP, GFPD received final bids from four vendors and GFPD then assembled an independent committee to evaluate and score the technical proposals.
- Based on the recommendation of the committee, GFPD entered into an agreement with its top-ranked construction vendor and conducted a Pre-Construction Conference on August 11 with the vendor, addressing schedule, Quality Control/Assurance, additional Value Engineering options, safety, and community concerns, including impacts on traffic, dust, and noise. The vendor started mobilization activities on Tuesday, August 12.
- In addition, GFPD, together with underwriters and bond counsel, has issued and sold the bonds necessary to fund the project and has now completed the closing for the bond transactions as of July 31, 2025.
- From this point on, we expect that EAR construction will be a daily activity, proceeding both from the north end near the Solitude tennis/pickleball courts and the south end from Highway 74. Trucks and equipment will be going through the neighborhood at times. Please be alert as you drive in and out of the neighborhood. Based on the current progress, GFPD expects to have the project substantially completed in December 2025.