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Select Board authorizes garage door replacements within $33,000 grant limits
Summary
The Stamford Select Board agreed to let public works staff move forward with replacing town garage doors using a $33,000 municipal energy resilience grant, after members questioned an expensive vendor line item and asked staff to collect additional quotes.
The Stamford Select Board voted to authorize the town’s public works foreman to approve replacement of garage doors so long as the work falls within a $33,000 municipal energy resilience grant.
Board members reviewed a packet that included a quote from North Country Overhead Door (Bennington, Vermont) that listed line items the group questioned. "Can you look at it yet?" one member asked, and after discussion the board agreed to have David (public works) and another member review competing bids and return with a recommendation. Chair said on the record, "We approved it. All in favor? Aye." The motion instructs staff to proceed only if the purchase complies with the grant terms.
Members discussed technical differences in quoted doors—R-values and motor replacement were singled out—and whether the grant could cover replacing multiple doors and associated operators. One participant noted discrepancies among three written prices in the packet, and members asked staff to gather additional quotes for the side (man) door that had not been clearly quoted.
The board's action is administrative: it delegates approval authority to the public works foreman (David) within the grant amount rather than awarding a contract immediately. The board agreed to revisit the recommendation at the next meeting if members still had questions after review.
