NEWFANE — Town Office Building Committee Member Guenther Garbe reports that the town is re-advertising for bids for Town Office repairs, and that bids are due Oct. 17.
The original bids, for work Garbe said should have come in under $20,000, came in at around $46,000, he reported at the Sept. 19 Selectboard meeting.
The project calls for replacing rotten beams beneath the town office; repairing and replacing attic insulation and installing vents; filling in the cistern beneath the town office; and removing a large safe from the meeting room.
In addition, Selectboard Vice-chair Todd Lawley noted that Wade Masure of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns had conducted an insurance inspection of the building, and was preparing recommendations to add to the project.
Garbe noted that rewritten specs of the bid would encourage more bidders, and that he questioned whether the work would be done this year.