It was an exercise in pencil sharpening, but with revisions the Francis Street Childcare Centre is back on track.
That’s Carleton Place Chief Administrative Officer Diane Smithson, who tells Oldies 107.7 that 400 thousand dollars was shaved from initial estimates to make the project affordable.
Revisions included removing an exterior retaining wall in favour of a landscaped slope, cutting an interior partition and trimming back to one layer of asphalt on a paved Fire Lane.
Argue Construction will be doing the work, and their bid came in at 3.216 million dollars.
Most of the money comes from a grant, but as the new Childcare Centre will add 80 spaces in the community and create 15 jobs, most of the local share can be invoiced to Development Charges.
The CAO says all of the paperwork was condensed into Council discussions Tuesday so that the project can move forward.
The Provincial grant spells out a move-in date of December 31st of 2020.
