Greenville seeking $125K for public safety building HVAC system
GREENVILLE — A grant application for $125,000 to cover a portion of the HVAC system at the new Greenville Public Safety Building, which is currently under construction, was formally signed by the select board during a July 5 meeting, two days ahead of the deadline.
Town Manager Mike Roy said residents John and Margarita Contreni have been working on the grant through Efficiency Maine.
“Your letter of support I believe is one of the last pieces of the puzzle,” he told the select board. “That’s for a program for up to $125,000 for the public safety facility.”
“This particular grant is part of the EfficiencyMaine program that the governor worked on a few years ago and it has to be for some part of the building that gets a rebate from Efficiency Maine,” John Contreni said. “The part that we chose was the HVAC system which cost $458,000 and it gets a rebate of $65,000 when the building is finished and they can come and see that it’s in there.”
“This 125,000, if it’s approved, would further reduce the cost to $268,000, that will save us about $200,000,” he said about the grant and rebate.
In other business, Roy said in the last several weeks two business owners approached him about leasing town-owned property. He said there is land available — about 3.5 acres — on Spruce Street at the Greenville Business Center.
“We have plenty of room for two more businesses over there,” he said.
Roy said the businesses would each construct their own buildings on about a half acre of land apiece, and the town would generate revenue from each lot.
He said a rate of 25 cents per square foot would come to $5,445 annually while 50 cents a square foot would double the amount to $10,890.
“It’s town-owned so it’s not generating anything at all, I just want to point that out,” the town manager said.
When asked about what type of businesses inquired Roy said, “One is a local contractor that’s looking for land and has asked several questions about the property and what the rate might be. The other is a radio network, so someone wants to bring their radio station to Greenville. It’s a nationwide station, it’s a veterans radio station.”
The select board agreed that the lease rate would be 25 cents per square foot and the board authorized Roy to continue to talk with the two interested parties.
The land would need to be surveyed and formal lease agreements would be negotiated and brought before the select board if progress is made.