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County: EMS headquarters nears completion; existing EMS building to be remodeled for emergency management and fire, RFQ approved for health/FCRC study
Summary
County staff and consultants reported the EMS headquarters is roughly 78% complete and billing; the county plans to repurpose the current EMS facility as a combined emergency management and fire facility with a new storm shelter, and commissioners authorized an RFQ for a space-needs study for the health department and FCRC.
Riley County received updates on two linked capital projects May 1: the new emergency medical services (EMS) headquarters nearing finishing work, and plans to remodel the existing EMS building for emergency management, fire operations and a storm shelter.
Andrew Girth of BHS, the project team for the new headquarters, told commissioners the building is largely finished inside and out and that, through March billing data, the project is “currently showing about 78% completed and billed to date.” He said the contract amount remains $9,587,108 with a contingency of about $509,000; the project team expects site work and paving to be completed in June and cited one long-lead electrical item (a manual transfer switch) scheduled for July delivery that will require a brief…
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