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Collins hones in on five-year plan

OBSERVER Staff Writer

COLLINS — The town of Collins has put together its additions to the five-year plan on assessing what it will and may do in the coming years for capital projects.

The plan goes until 2020 and has few projects that expect to surpass the $50,000 mark.

“We have been putting this five-year plan together, then honing it once it comes budget time,” Collins Town Supervisor David Tessmer said. “So we built this thing and then every year, at budget time, we have to decide where the rubber’s going to meet the road.

“We put all these things in the plan, (but) how many of these things are we going to pull the trigger on? And I think, as a board, that we agree that everything in budget time are projects we can move forward with, nothing got pushed.”

For 2017, the board has agreed to pursue the idea of four projects that will be $100,000 or more. That includes: $105,000 for a tractor with a mower and broom ($20,000 will come from trade-in), $225,000 will be used toward the L.K. Painter Center’s roof ($150,000 will be through a grant), $150,000 for a highway storage building (estimated before design, bid and inspection costs) and $125,000 for highway road upgrades on Smith Crest Drive and Armes Court.

All but two projects are over $50,000, which will be the cost of demolition and renewing the town hall parking lot.

Tessmer added that Collins’ government is much like bigger governments in that they move slow. Some projects would like to be done, but delays are very plausible.

For example: the engineering design and bid process for the highway storage building could likely bleed over to 2018.

As for the upcoming years, Collins looks to spend $150,000 for Maple and Mildred drainage improvements, $100,000 in system upgrades to water district No. 1 and $80,000 for Collins Town Park restrooms and septic, all in 2018.

In 2019, another $100,000 is projected for a water district No. 1 upgrade, $125,000 for highway road upgrades and $100,000 for the Collins Center Park multi-use building (restrooms).

The year 2020 does not have any major projects, with the lone project being a whopping $3,000 on tree planting at both parks.

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