Date: Fri 25-Apr-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: KAAREN

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Edmond-Town-Hall-roof-bids

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Managers Select A Roofer For Edmond Town Hall

GENNEWS

Edmond Town Hall will be getting a new roof - at least, part of it will.

The Board of Managers opened bids on Monday from four roofing firms and

awarded a contract to Commercial Roofing and Contracting, Inc, of Putnam,

based on its low-bid of $122,400, which was about $25,000 less than the next

lowest bidder.

The base bid covers the re-roofing of four flat sections of roof on the back

side of the building. Adding the consulting fees and other related costs will

bring the project to between $150,000 and $175,000, close to the projected

cost of the project, according to Edgar Beers, chairman of the Board of

Managers.

H.B. Fishman and Company, Inc, of South Windsor will act as the clerk of the

works for the project.

The base bid does not include a new slate roof for the front of the building.

Instead, this roof was bid as two additional alternates.

Replacing the gutters, flashing and valleys on the slate roof was bid at

$18,400. The second alternate, re-roofing the entire slate roof (including the

gutters, flashings and valleys), was bid at $101,000.

"We have to sit down with the contractor and talk about the project," Mr Beers

said. "We may still do parts of the slate roof. There are a few little leaks

which can be attended to. But the entire roof does need to be replaced. It was

put on when the building was constructed in 1929. The slate roof at Hawley

School, which was built before Edmond Town Hall, was replaced at least 15 to

20 years ago when I was on the [Legislative] council."

The Board of Managers had asked the town to contribute $50,000 toward the cost

of a new town hall roof in the 1997-98 budget but the Legislative Council's

Administration Committee pared that request down to $25,000. Although the

building was built as a town hall by town benefactress Mary Hawley, the town

traditionally hasn't paid for maintenance to the building. Nearly all costs

have been paid by the Hawley Trust Fund and receipts from movie ticket sales

and rentals of the gym, Alexandria Room and other rooms in the building.