![]() ![]() ![]() The questions included what will be done with contaminated soils removed from the site and where water for the facility will come from, to how long the emergency generator will be able to run, how the furnishings will be chosen, how the site was chosen as the location for the center and why the construction estimate doesn’t include a contingency to buffer against cost overruns. ![]() Still, the revelation was cause for concern for some legislators who for more than two hours peppered consultants with questions about the project. “The difference really from (the original estimate) is all that goes in for equipment,” Young said. It will replace the current 911 facility located in a house on Golden Hill and the county emergency operations center, located in a room at the Law Enforcement Center.Ĭhristopher Young, an architect with Urbahan Architects, told county legislators during a special meeting of Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday that the additional cost stems from the inclusion of the technology infrastructure and furnishings that weren’t included in the original estimate. It will house the county’s 911 dispatch center and emergency management offices as well as other related office space. The new government operations center is proposed to be located on Paradies Lane in New Paltz, near exit 18 of the state Thruway. That’s up from the original cost estimate of $24,912,210. The cost of Ulster County’s proposed new government operations center has jumped by nearly $10 million, and the design of the project is only 30% complete, county lawmakers were told Wednesday, March 15.Ĭonstruction of the center, which will be the county’s first major new construction project since the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center was completed in 2009, is now estimated to cost $34,583,746. ![]()
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