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Fluvanna supervisors approve $615,000 funding cap and sign site contract for county fire training building
Summary
After multi-year planning and higher-than-expected bids, the Board of Supervisors set a $615,000 county funding cap for a containerized fire training building and approved a $610,061 site-work contract with Brock Construction, while staff said final container prices remain pending.
The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 17 set a county funding cap of $615,000 for the county's proposed containerized fire training building and approved a $610,061 contract with Brock Construction for site work, signaling the board's intent to move the long-delayed project into construction despite outstanding vendor pricing details.
The project manager and county staff told the board that a five-container training system previously quoted as $680,000 in early 2024 may now be priced differently and that several ancillary costs — crane rental, engineer drawings, freight, electrical hookup, special inspections and contingencies — were not fully finalized. "We don't have actual finalized cost yet," the presenter said when summarizing vendor communications and contingency estimates.
Why this matters: County fire and volunteer departments have for years relied on out-of‑county facilities for technical training. Board…
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