AURORA - If the village board ends up keeping its post office, it may as well make it look nice.
Trustees accepted a building needs assessment proposal from MRB Wednesday night. For a maximum of $8,500, the Rochester-based engineering firm will estimate exterior sprucing as well as structural and mechanical needs at 373 Main St.
“Some things can be done to that building to make it look better,” Mayor Thomas Gunderson said, using a switch from the flat roof to another style as an example.
The board was ready to demolish the building that originally served as a garage and have the post office moved to the Heary Building next door as recently as April. However, a deal with Wells College and the Aurora Foundation fell through, leaving the U.S. Postal Service and the village scrambling for a new plan.
Building assessment will estimate the costs necessary to make the building handsome and habitable for the next 30 years or so, Gunderson said. Though the agency initially indicated it needed bigger digs when the search for a new home began several years ago, those requirements have changed.
That makes renewing a multi-decade lease with the village a possibility and an assessment necessary, Gunderson said.
“I think we need to do something to let the postal service know whether or not the village is still in the real estate business,” he said.
The Postal Service would like to have its building plans in place well before the current lease with the village ends in 2009. The MRB assessment should take about six to eight weeks.
The village may consider moving village offices to the post office building to make it more cost effective.
In other news:
* The board appointed Debbie Brooks part-time accounts clerk. Brooks will eventually take over for Melinda Kostreva, who plans to resign as bookkeeper because of another job commitment.
The board voted 4-0 for the appointment. Trustee George Farenthold was absent.
Staff writer Shane Liebler can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or shane.liebler@lee.net
“Some things can be done to that building to make it look better,” Mayor Thomas Gunderson said, using a switch from the flat roof to another style as an example.
The board was ready to demolish the building that originally served as a garage and have the post office moved to the Heary Building next door as recently as April. However, a deal with Wells College and the Aurora Foundation fell through, leaving the U.S. Postal Service and the village scrambling for a new plan.
Building assessment will estimate the costs necessary to make the building handsome and habitable for the next 30 years or so, Gunderson said. Though the agency initially indicated it needed bigger digs when the search for a new home began several years ago, those requirements have changed.
That makes renewing a multi-decade lease with the village a possibility and an assessment necessary, Gunderson said.
“I think we need to do something to let the postal service know whether or not the village is still in the real estate business,” he said.
The Postal Service would like to have its building plans in place well before the current lease with the village ends in 2009. The MRB assessment should take about six to eight weeks.
The village may consider moving village offices to the post office building to make it more cost effective.
In other news:
* The board appointed Debbie Brooks part-time accounts clerk. Brooks will eventually take over for Melinda Kostreva, who plans to resign as bookkeeper because of another job commitment.
The board voted 4-0 for the appointment. Trustee George Farenthold was absent.
Staff writer Shane Liebler can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or shane.liebler@lee.net
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