Construction to start on Greenville community building

GREENVILLE — Work will start soon on a $3.15 million municipal facility to house pre-kindergarten and childcare facilities and a community center on the Greenville Consolidated School Pritham Avenue campus.

The Greenville Select Board voted to move forward on the Youth, Education and Sports Building during a July 15 meeting, allowing Town Manager Mike Roy to sign project contracts. Construction costs will be covered by grants and donations.

The YES Committee has a building design and budget and is working with BENCHMARK Construction of Westbrook.

“Those three tenants have made lots of compromises and worked together on this layout,” Don Hodap of the committee said.

The near $3.15 million cost includes a 10% contingency fund with 6% for the contractor to work with.

Grant funds include $1.5 million in congressionally directed spending and another $1 million from the Northern Border Region Commission. Another $540,000 has been made in donations and two “angel donors” will contribute up to $200,000 if need be as fundraising continues.

“These people believe in this project and these people believe in this town,” Hodap said.

Hammond Lumber agreed to provide materials at a discount, saving up to $200,000. 

“There is nothing on the hook for the town,” Hodap said.

Once the YES building is complete, tenants will be responsible for equipment, insurance and utilities.

Groundbreaking could take place in mid-August.  

“The goal is to have this built within a year,” Hodap said. A final construction schedule is not set.

In other business, work on the Scammon, Varney and East roads was awarded to low bidder Roundy’s Paving of Newport.

At the previous meeting Roy spoke about six bids that came in, ranging from nearly $2.54 million to the bid of just under $898,000 for Roundy’s Paving.

“After doing all the vetting and looking over every single proposal, the low bid was Roundy’s Paving,” Roy said.

Road work will be done this summer.

The capital account for the project has $1.4 million.

Recreation Director Sally Tornquist will retire in late August. The position has been posted and three applications have already come in, Roy said.