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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Ind. Courts - "We understand this may exceed your expectation"
The estimate is in on renovating the Randolph County Courthouse, reports Bill Richmond of the Winchester News-Gazette:
Martin Riley architects Monday told the County Board of Commissioners the courthouse renovation and court annex will likely cost the county more than $7.5 million. The figure includes construction costs only."We understand this may exceed your expectation," said MR architect Jack Daniel. "If this won't work, we could sit down and decide what should remain in the project and what shouldn't."
Daniel said the price quote of $7,513,864 includes the mansard roof and clock tower, as well as reconfiguring offices in the courthouse and building two new court facilities. The figure does not include furnishings for the new courts and soft costs such as bonding, accounting, engineering and legal fees. It is basically a bricks and mortar only price.
Commissioner David Lenkensdofer estimated the soft costs incurred in this project will likely be another $1.2 million, making the total project cost approximately $8.7 million.
Daniel said he will investigate an accurate cost for furnishings and provide the figure for commissioners at their next meeting.
He said the project is still on schedule to be let for bid in March, 2008 and begin construction when the weather breaks approximately 30 days later.
MR architect Ron Ross said the project will also include some site improvements to the north side courthouse lawn. Ross said the "civic improvements" will make the courthouse lawn more inviting to the public.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 6, 2007 04:14 PM
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