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Andover updates grant-funded capital projects: Veterans Field, senior hub and multi-use trail design shortfall
Summary
Town Administrator Eric reported at the Sept. 24 Board of Finance meeting that multiple state and legislative grants will fund several Andover projects but rising costs and incomplete designs leave the senior hub and multi-use pathway requiring additional town funding or revised budgets.
Andover, Conn. — At the Board of Finance’s Sept. 24 meeting, Town Administrator Eric outlined the town’s portfolio of active grants and capital projects and said the town has secured roughly $14 million in grant funding over the past six years. He described progress, funding sources and design gaps on Veterans Memorial Field, the senior transportation hub, the multi-use pathway and larger recreation projects.
Eric said the Veterans Memorial Field work is now ready for procurement under the EZIQC cooperative contract program administered through the Capital Region Council of Governments; that approach uses competitively bid unit prices that local governments can piggyback on and streamlines administration. He said the Board of Selectmen authorized signing the EZIQC contract and that execution is pending a revised budget submission to the…
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