Manteca’s largest ever endeavor aimed at improving safe routes to schools could move forward on Tuesday.

That is when the City Council meets at 6 p.m. to secure engineering design work for $260,630 from Sanderson Belleci Co.

That work would allow Manteca to move forward with a $1.5 million  grant from the San Joaquin Council of Governments.

The grant is funded with the extra half cent in Measure K sales tax collected throughout San Joaquin County to fund road and transit projects.

The grant will allow work to be done near Sierra and Manteca high schools as well as Golden West, Stella Brockman, Shasta, and Brock Elliott schools.

The schools have a combined enrollment of 6,500 students.

The most significant improvements are planned near Sierra High and Golden West School.

The Golden West School work includes adding a crossing on North Main Street at Jason Street.

Besides a high visibility crosswalk, there will be a refuge island built in a median. It is designed to break crossing the busy four-lane North Main Street corridor with a raised area in the middle of the street that pedestrians can use while crossing Main Street.

Curb ramps will be added or replaced at nine intersections near Golden West School. That is in addition to replacing five existing crosswalks with high visibility crosswalks.

The Sierra High work incudes putting in place a missing segment of sidewalk on the north side of Thomas Street as well as adding sidewalk on the west side of Fishback Road from Thomas Street to Wawona Street.

The work will also include five highly visible crosswalks as well as ramp replacements or additions at 16 intersections or mid-block locations.

The work near Manteca High includes replacing or adding ramps at five intersections plus adding four high visibility crosswalks.

Ten intersections by Brock Elliott School will have ramps added or replaced. That is in addition to three new additional high visibility crosswalks.

Shasta School will see nine intersections with ramps replaced or upgraded with five new highly visible crosswalks. There is also a missing sidewalk gap being installed on the north side of Edison Street where the campus abuts residential use to the west.

The work near Stella Brockman School involves adding sidewalk to the south side of Crom Street from Silverado Drive to Zurich Drive along the municipal golf course.

Stella Brockman will also have 18 intersections that will have ramps replaced or added along with putting in place four highly visible crosswalks.

The City Council meets Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Civic Center, 1001 W. Center St.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com