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Wheaton Park band shell bids come in double city funding; staff recommends $100,000 CDBG reallocation
Summary
City staff told the council the low construction bid for a planned Wheaton Park stage was about $196,000 — roughly $100,000 more than available funds — and proposed reallocating $100,000 in CDBG from an alley CIP and backfilling highway user revenue for the alley work, pending HUD approvals and a 30-day public comment period.
City project manager Jim Bender told the Hagerstown City Council that bids for a planned new stage or bandshell at Wheaton Park came in far higher than staff estimates and that the lowest bid exceeded available funding by roughly $100,000.
"We had between carryover funding from FY25 and what was allocated in the FY26 budget, we had about a $100,000 to do this project. The low bid was a 196,000, so we're just about a $100,000 short," Bender said. He told the council that the initial round of bidding produced only one bid several months earlier; a revised solicitation yielded more bidders…
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