Guilford accepts plan for new town building
GUILFORD – After soliciting engineering proposals last month, the Guilford town board has accepted a plan from Keystone Associates, LLC, to develop the town hall and highway garage project, officials confirmed Wednesday.
In December, the board voted to review three new proposals after voters approved the $1.65 million project budget, board and building committee member Bruce Winsor said.
“We felt it would best serve the taxpayers to do this,” said Winsor, referring to opening-up proposals. “We wanted to go back and re-examine with the different firms and see what we could come up with.”
At a special meeting of the town board Saturday, members voted to accept Keystone, of Binghamton, which offered the least expensive plan at $140,000. In all, the board reviewed proposals from three different firms.
“We felt most comfortable with Keystone,” said Winsor.
Keystone’s contract is still being reviewed by the town attorney, Winsor said, and the firm has yet to be officially hired.
A proposal from Hawk Engineering of Binghamton, which had been involved in the building project’s initial planning phases, was not accepted.
“Keystone came in with a good proposal,” Guilford Supervisor Al Doyle said. “The figures were good; we’re ready to go.”
Winsor and Doyle affirmed the switch wouldn’t change the project’s $1.65 million price tag.
Winsor, however, said the proposed square footage of the project may decrease.
Currently, the plan calls for a new 4,000 square foot town hall and 11,700 square foot highway garage to replace the current facilities on 125 Marble Road at a cost that won’t exceed $1.65 million or require a raise in taxes. Winsor said the highway garage could be scaled-back to around 10,000 square feet after plans are finalized.
“At the original square footage, it could be tight to come in at $1.65 million.”
A representative from Keystone said next week the company will give Guilford officials a tour of the Town of Chenango offices and highway garage, as well as offices in the Binghamton Regional Airport, both designed by Keystone.
If the contract is approved, surveying and grading plans are set to be underway this spring, Keystone spokesman Kenneth D. Ellsworth.
“We’ll be off and running,” Ellsworth said Wednesday.
The new facilities will be paid for by a $135,000 dedicated fund that’s already included in each year’s budget for building costs.
The town also has $69,000 in aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that will go toward the highway garage portion of the project.
The new town hall and highway garage site is located roughly a mile up from the current building on 117 acres of land the town purchased. Building committee members have said the town will look to sell-off excess land not used for the new offices and highway garage.
In December, the board voted to review three new proposals after voters approved the $1.65 million project budget, board and building committee member Bruce Winsor said.
“We felt it would best serve the taxpayers to do this,” said Winsor, referring to opening-up proposals. “We wanted to go back and re-examine with the different firms and see what we could come up with.”
At a special meeting of the town board Saturday, members voted to accept Keystone, of Binghamton, which offered the least expensive plan at $140,000. In all, the board reviewed proposals from three different firms.
“We felt most comfortable with Keystone,” said Winsor.
Keystone’s contract is still being reviewed by the town attorney, Winsor said, and the firm has yet to be officially hired.
A proposal from Hawk Engineering of Binghamton, which had been involved in the building project’s initial planning phases, was not accepted.
“Keystone came in with a good proposal,” Guilford Supervisor Al Doyle said. “The figures were good; we’re ready to go.”
Winsor and Doyle affirmed the switch wouldn’t change the project’s $1.65 million price tag.
Winsor, however, said the proposed square footage of the project may decrease.
Currently, the plan calls for a new 4,000 square foot town hall and 11,700 square foot highway garage to replace the current facilities on 125 Marble Road at a cost that won’t exceed $1.65 million or require a raise in taxes. Winsor said the highway garage could be scaled-back to around 10,000 square feet after plans are finalized.
“At the original square footage, it could be tight to come in at $1.65 million.”
A representative from Keystone said next week the company will give Guilford officials a tour of the Town of Chenango offices and highway garage, as well as offices in the Binghamton Regional Airport, both designed by Keystone.
If the contract is approved, surveying and grading plans are set to be underway this spring, Keystone spokesman Kenneth D. Ellsworth.
“We’ll be off and running,” Ellsworth said Wednesday.
The new facilities will be paid for by a $135,000 dedicated fund that’s already included in each year’s budget for building costs.
The town also has $69,000 in aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that will go toward the highway garage portion of the project.
The new town hall and highway garage site is located roughly a mile up from the current building on 117 acres of land the town purchased. Building committee members have said the town will look to sell-off excess land not used for the new offices and highway garage.
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