After an incredible amount of discussion, planning, design and costing, the 1835 Town Hall Committee has just received the list of items to be credited from the current contract and the change order to make the needed structural repairs necessary from the exposed timbers discovered in late July. The credits to be taken out of the current contract, roughly $48,000, include drywall, painting, trim, electrical wiring, eave work and steel reinforcement (steel is no longer needed). The Change Order for the structural repairs to the timbers using LVL sandwiching as designed will be $47,643.

So this clears the way for us to proceed with these structural repairs and our new roof and remain on budget.

Items removed from the current contract will be added to a new contract along with rafter repair, trim, electrical, lighting, sound, insulation and baffing funded by the $100,000 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund.

Respectfully,

Robert McKay Jones
Chair
1835 Town Hall Committee