Complex Completion Coming?

(Reprinted from Amboy Beacon, Jan. 26, 2011) PERTH AMBOY — Completion of the $90 million Public Safety/Municipal Court/Community Center Complex, Amboy and New Brunswick Avenues, may be coming during 2011, Business Administrator Gregory Fehrenbach said at the Caucus session before the City Council’s last meeting.

Fehrenbach’s remarks came during discussion of change-orders needed to bring the building into compliance for a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) to be issued.

Fehrenbach estimated that “another $550,000” may be needed to bring the building, which started-out with an estimated total cost of $30 million, up-to-code.

During the Council meeting held two days later, the governing body unanimously adopted two Resolutions — both moved by Councilman William Petrick, seconded by Councilman Kenneth Gonzalez and adopted 5-0 — approving some of the needed change-orders.

The first Resolution authorized five change-orders to a contract with Woodward Construction Co., Matawan, for $18,869 for “code-compliance construction.”

The second Resolution authorized a change-order to a contract with Binsky & Snyder, Piscataway, for $13,145 for increased Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) work.

The Council also voted unanimously to authorize a $16,000 contract with Ramas Climate & Refrigeration Inc., Livingston, for Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) preventive maintenance at the Complex.

That measure, too, was moved by Petrick, seconded by Gonzalez and adopted

5-0

The bid submitted by Ramas Climate & Refrigeration was the lowest of nine bids received on Dec. 22 for the service contract, ranging as high as $199,475.