City Council Awards Bid For Police Station

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Published on June 21 2017 1:21 pm
Last Updated on June 21 2017 1:49 pm
Written by Millie Lange

The Effingham City Council met Tuesday evening and accepted a $6.89 million bid from Fager McGee of Carbondale for the new police station.

Construction on the building will begin July 18. There were 12 bids in all and some of those bids came from Grunloh Building, Grunloh Construction, K. Wohltman Construction, ICS Construction Services and LJ Swingler Construction. The bids went from the accepted $6.89 million to a little under $8 million for the hard construction.  The soft costs, which include furniture, etc., will be bid at a later date.

In other business, the Effingham Performance Center will receive a $45,000 grant issued to the Arts Connection of Central Illinois for new carpet. The Amusement Tax Funds will reimburse the EPC after the project is completed.

Old stickers were removed from police cars and replaced with new ones giving the cars a new look.

In other business:

The purchase of a right of way for $4,200 was authorized for Paul H. Deters and others for Oak Ridge Cemetery. The Business Appreciation Award was presented to Lickin' My Chicken & Pullin' My Pork BBQ.

Motor Fuel Tax funds for $45,000 was appropriated for maintaining Jaycee Avenue, Banker Street, Fayette Avenue and Willow Street. Revisions were approved for the final plat of Prairie Ace Estates Subdivision. Single family homes and multi-family units will be in the residential development north of the  Effingham Country Club.

A special use permit will allow the development of a brew pub in the Central Business District in the building formerly Il Forno.

The Council also approved starting a process to create the South Banker Street Business District Plan along with facade improvement for property at Effingham Storage Solutions, 2301 S. Banker. The project will cost more than $47,000 but $24,000 will be funded by the program.

Also approved was Stantec, who will provide a residential and wholesale water rate study which is done every four years, for $24,930.