Lebanon Transit project ready for bids; county asked to commit roughly $280,000 in local match

Toby Fowler, a consultant working with Lebanon Transit, told Lebanon County leaders the agency’s planned maintenance and operations facility — estimated at about $48 million in construction costs — is ready to be put out to bid, but the project still faces a local-match shortfall of roughly $280,000.

Fowler said the project has already incurred about $4.1 million in design costs and that PennDOT’s construction-management estimate is roughly $2.5 million. He told the group that recent work by PennDOT identified about $2 million in additional federal funds for the project, which reduced the local-match requirement by about $65,000 to roughly $720,000. After accounting for funds Lebanon Transit has committed from its capital reserves, Fowler said the agency can apply about $322,833 toward the match, leaving…