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.”

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1 comments on this story

Becky0001
January 24th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Wait a minute here...You mean to tell me that the project put up to a vote by the town of Guilford was not put to bid first??? What this means is that the cost approved by the voters is a fairy tale. It is an ESTIMATE!!! Taxpayers of Guilford...Hold on to your wallets...now the pain will begin!
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