New Ross Township municipal building plan advances
By David Pierce
Pocono Record
Posted Apr. 14, 2015 at 4:07 PM
Updated Apr 14, 2015 at 5:31 PM
This time Ross Township is moving forward with construction of a new municipal building.
Supervisors Tina Drake and Butch Kresge voted 2-0 Monday to award contracts for the project totaling about $703,000, after proposals submitted last September were rejected as too expensive.
Construction of the 3,000-square-foot, single-story building — near the current municipal center on Anchorage Road — is expected to begin by next Monday and be completed by Dec. 1.
Going Green Construction, of Dunmore, was awarded the general construction bid of $537,948. R. G. Hoffman Electric, of Bangor was awarded an electrical construction contract of $87,315. Plum-Air Inc., of Hazleton, was awarded a $28,000 plumbing contract and a $50,000 contract for mechanical work.
About half of the construction will be covered by a $369,000 state grant.
The township originally agreed to construct a new municipal building on Anchorage Road — adjacent to the current building —after a shooting during an August 2013 supervisors’ meeting left three township residents dead. The building was damaged by gunfire but repaired.
