By ROD ROWE
Price quotes were accepted for improvements at two Goshen-owned buildings, when members of the Board of Works met in weekly session Monday.
Insulation will be placed in the ceiling at City Hall after the lowest of four quotes was accepted from Momper Insulation. The firm will complete the work for $2,370 and the work will be done within two weeks.
In other business:
• New cabinets and countertops will be installed at the maintenance office at the wastewater treatment plant, after an agreement was approved with Superior Laminating, Inc.
The Goshen firm offered to instal its products for $1,020. The work will be completed within three weeks.
• Bids were read Monday from two firms for testing and repairs to cold water meters.
The bidders and their prices included Hydro Meter Systems, Pontiac, Mich., testing, $13,997 and $65 per hour for repairs; and M.E. Simpson, Valparaiso, testing, $26,775 and repairs at $25 and $50 per hour.
• The board expanded a soil and water testing agreement with Roberts Environmental Services, which has been working at the former site of Quality Driveaway at North Main Street. The original testing contract was for work not to exceed $29,000 and the additional work will be not to exceed $17,000.
• The board of works authorized the staff in the engineering department to seek bids for paving at Tanglewood Drive, Crescent Street, phase III, and the parking lot at the Millrace dam headgates. The paving bids will be read Dec. 7.
• The board also held a hearing on a house that was judged unfit for habitation by city building officials, agreed with the officials and voted to demolish the building. Building officials have been inspecting the small house at 514 S. 14th Street for the past two years, the board was told.
The former owner and three financial institutions have been contacted and the only response was from the former owner, Richard D. Hardesty, according to city attorney Larry Barkes.
The board deemed the house unsafe and ordered it demolished by Nov. 23.
