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Mount Hope board approves CDBG amendment and award for senior-center pickleball courts
Summary
The Town of Mount Hope board approved awarding a construction contract for senior-center pickleball courts and authorized the town supervisor to sign a 2025 CDBG amendment with Orange County that the chair said will cover the project cost; the board noted a small contingency gap.
The Town of Mount Hope board voted July 16 to award a contract for new pickleball courts at the Mount Hope Senior Center and to authorize an amendment to the town’s 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) agreement with Orange County to fund the project.
Chair said the town received three bids and that the town’s engineers, Pittenger and Deutsch, recommended the contract be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. “So just so everyone's clear, the project will be paid for entirely by the CDBG grant,” the Chair said. The board moved and approved the award and the grant amendment on voice votes.
According to the Chair, CDBG staff approved an amendment to provide $175,000 toward the project. The Chair also noted a roughly $7,000 difference between the bid total and the amended award and said the town engineer expects available contingency funds will cover that gap. The transcript records the recommended contractor name with variant spellings (transcript: Boyce/Boise/Boyse Excavating Incorporated) and an engineer-recommended figure of $182,733.50; those names and numbers appear inconsistently in the record and are flagged in clarifying details below.
The board did not request further changes to the project scope at the meeting. Chair said staff will return to the board if additional funding or action is needed. No public comment was recorded on this agenda item.
Clarifying details recorded in the meeting: the board stated the project is funded through a CDBG award; the amendment amount discussed was $175,000; the engineer referenced a recommended award and contingency sufficient to cover about $7,000 in additional costs.
