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Simsbury board sets public hearing for PAC bandshell supplemental appropriation amid funding questions
Summary
The Board of Finance voted to set a Dec. 10 public hearing on a $388,000 supplemental appropriation for the Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center bandshell expansion, and directed that public notices include the project's full total cost. Board members pressed town staff and PAC representatives about outstanding pledges and contingency plans.
The Board of Finance on Nov. 18 voted to schedule a public hearing Dec. 10 on a $388,000 supplemental appropriation for the Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center "Next Act" bandshell expansion and required the town to include the project’s total cost in all hearing notices.
Tom Roy, a town project presenter, told the board that bids for the architectural addition returned near $2.5 million and that funding currently includes a DEC grant of roughly $900,000, $500,000 from earlier selectmen action and about $900,000 in donations raised by the performing arts center. Roy said unanticipated items — unsuitable soils, utility relocations and a code interpretation that required fire sprinklers or separation — pushed costs higher and produced the requested $388,000 supplemental appropriation to…
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