United Community Action Partnership will be working with the city of Marshall to build bus shelters and sidewalk improvements at a total of six bus stops around the city. The list of locations includes stops that don’t currently have bus shelters, like this stop near Kathryn Avenue and Freedom Park.

MARSHALL — The city of Marshall will be teaming up with United Community Action Partnership to build several more new Community Transit bus shelters around the city.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Marshall City Council, council members voted to approve an agreement with UCAP to help with the project.

“UCAP has a grant, a $207,000 total cost grant project, and they’ve asked the city to help them design and administer the contract,” said Marshall Public Works Director Jason Anderson.

Anderson said the proposal was originally brought before the city council in 2022. “There’s been a lot of back-and-forth with UCAP and (the Minnesota Department of Transportation) regarding the grant, so the project hasn’t taken off yet,” he said. The city has worked together with UCAP to update a proposed memorandum of understanding for the project to be more current.

Anderson said UCAP is seeking to build shelters and make sidewalk accessibility improvements at a half-dozen Community Transit bus stops around Marshall. The full list of locations includes stops on Camden Drive, near Riverview Apartments, on Dogwood Avenue, near Freedom Park, at the intersection of Susan Drive and Baseline Road, and at the intersection of North Fourth Street and Darlene Drive.

UCAP would be responsible for the capital outlay for the project, and the city would be the sponsor for the grant, and the engineer for the project. Anderson said UCAP would pay the city for engineering services.

“Our intent would be to help UCAP advertise this project for quotes or bids very soon,” he said.

The project is similar to a Community Transit bus shelter project the city assisted with in 2020, Anderson said. The 2020 project built shelters at bus stops at the intersection of North Fourth Street and Redwood Street, at South Fourth Street and Stephen Avenue, and on Birch Street near Village Drive.

City council members voted to approve a memorandum of understanding with UCAP for the bus shelter project. Council member See Moua-Leske abstained from the vote.