Bids for Boyceville fire station range from $1.6 million to $1.79 million
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By LeAnn R. Ralph
BOYCEVILLE — Five construction companies submitted bids to build the new fire station in Boyceville, and the base bids range from $1,612,456 to $1,788,858.
The Boyceville Community Fire District Board held a special meeting Wednesday, March 6, to open the bids.
Dave Cihasky with Wendell/Five Bugles Design opened the sealed envelopes and read off the amounts.
A difference of $176,402 separates the low and high bids without the generator added in.
A difference of $171,424 separates the low and high bids with the generator added in.
Here are the bids in the order they were opened:
• Berghammer Builders, Inc. (Clayton): $1,676,273; $38,969 for the generator.
• Cedar Falls Building Systems (Menomonie): $1,788,858; $39,714 for the generator.
• Derrick Building Solutions (New Richmond): $1,659,200; $42,179 for the generator.
• Marawood Construction Services (Altoona): $1,646,120; $45,125 for the generator.
• Shefchik Builders, Inc. (Menomonie): $1,612,456; $44,692 for the generator.
Cihasky said he would review all of the bids, talk to the bidders and make sure that everything was included in their bids.
The Boyceville Community Fire District Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, at the Boyceville Village Hall on Charlotte Street.
One of the agenda items is to consider the fire hall bids.
After the fire board has recommended a bidder, then the recommended bid will be taken back to the town boards and the village boards in the fire district for approval, noted Charles Maves, a supervisor on the Sherman Town Board.
Members of the Boyceville fire district include the Towns of Hay River, New Haven, Sherman, Stanton, Tiffany and the Villages of Boyceville and Wheeler.
A simple majority of the municipalities in the fire district must accept the bid before the fire station project can move forward.
If the individual municipalities in the fire district arrange for their own financing and take out loans to pay for their share of the fire station, the municipalities can take the loans outside of the levy limit, noted Chuck Siler, chair of the Town of Tiffany.
The bids will be valid for 30 days, Cihasky said.
The municipalities would pay for the new fire station based on the percentage of equalized value that each municipality has in the fire district.
Based on an approximate cost of $1.6 million, Hay River, with 21.56 percent of the 2018 equalized value in the fire district, would pay approximately $345,000 toward the fire station.
The Town of New Haven (87 percent of the township in the fire district) with 13.8 percent of the equalized value in the fire district, would pay approximately $220,800 toward the fire station.
The Town of Sherman (51 percent of the township in the fire district) with 13.27 percent of the equalized value, would pay approximately $212,320 toward the fire station.
The Town of Stanton, with 20.72 percent of the equalized value, would pay approximately $331,520 toward the fire station.
The Town of Tiffany (72 percent of the township in the fire district) with 10.81 percent of the equalized value, would pay approximately $172,960 toward the new fire station.
The Village of Boyceville, with 16.5 percent of the equalized value in the fire district, would pay approximately $264,000 toward the new fire station.
The Village of Wheeler, with 3.3 percent of the equalized value, would pay approximately $52,800 toward the new fire station.
A simple majority of the municipalities in the fire district would require approval from four of the seven before the fire station project could move forward.
