Village accepts bids for fire station construction
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. » The Village Board has accepted contractors’ bids totaling $6.64 million for the construction of a 16,000-square-foot fire station at the corner of North Putt Corners Road and Henry W. DuBois Drive.
The bids — which totaled less than the expected $7 million — were approved during a videoconference meeting of the board on Wednesday.
“We had a very good outcome in terms of a number of bidders for this project,” Mayor Tim Rogers said.
“We bid out this project over a year ago, and we felt the numbers came in too high,” Rogers said. “We basically took the design and massaged it. We basically made more of a green building ... and I think we’re going to end up saving taxpayers a significant amount of money.”
The project has been in the planning stages since the Wallkill River and several creeks and streams flooded during Tropical Storms Irene and Lee in 2011, cutting off access to parts of New Paltz.
Some $5 million of the cost of the new firehouse will be covered by the Governor’s Office for Storm Recovery.
“It’s a very big moment for ... our community,” said Village Board member William Murray. “The amount of work that our fire department’s put into it, our community’s put into it, Mayor Rogers, a whole group of people, is just is just an extraordinary thing. ... We’re getting a much better building than if [we] accepted bid[s] about a year ago at much less cost and much greater energy-efficiency.”
The bids accepted by the Village Board on Wednesday were.
• $3.76 million for general contracting, from Meyer Contracting Corp. of Pleasant Valley.
• $997,600 for site grading, from Green Meadows of Wallkill.
• $895,710 for mechanical work, from Ashley Mechanical of Kingston.
• $594,444 for electrical work, from HV Electrical Construction and Maintenance of Milton.
• $393,000 for plumbing, from S&L Plumbing of White Plains.
The building is to be constructed on property currently used by a substation of the Plattekill Avenue village fire station.