The Town of Taber’s 2015-2017 capital budget has allocated more than $1.5 million for building projects in the community over 2015. At their Dec. 15 meeting, town council voted unanimously to approve the final draft 2015-2017 capital budget, including the transfer and re-allocation of amounts within the capital reserve accounts for the budget plan to be achieved. Total proposed capital purchases for 2015 ring in at $13,080,590. Proposed capital purchases for 2016 are pegged at $13,923,650, and $5,124,190 for 2017. Building projects have been allocated $1,550,000, with major projects including phase 1 of the Administration Building ($625,000); phase 1 of the emergency training center ($295,000); arena dressing room addition ($450,000); phase 2 of the historic courthouse upgrade ($80,000); pesticide containment shed ($10,000); KMMSC maintenance building expansion ($40,000); and project pre-design and engineering for various projects ($50,000). Topping the building project list for 2015, the necessity of proposed renovations to the town’s aging half of the Administration Building was challenged by Coun. Jack Brewin. “To do the money for the Administration Building, would be to do it in a two phase process,” said director of corporate services Dale Culler. “The first phase would be doing part of the work, so the anticipated amount in the budget was still going to be about $1.25 million dollars, in that range. At this point, just like the dressing rooms, there’s no hard numbers, but we need to make sure we have enough money in here to move forward with the project, once we get an idea of exactly what we want to to do.” Read the full story here: tabertimes/news/2014/12/31/town-council-allocating-1-5-million-for-buildings/
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:33:35 +0000
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