Florham Park Council awards contract for pool makeover

FLORHAM PARK -- Borough Council members on Thursday, Aug. 14, awarded a $911,100 contract to CFM Construction of the Stirling section of Long Hill Township to start work on the municipal pools makeover.

Bids for the contract were accepted and opened on Tuesday, Aug. 5.

Work is expected to begin next month after the pool closes and be completed in time for the pool to open on the Memorial Day weekend in 2015.

CFM was one of six companies to submit bids, but it was not the company with the lowest bid initially.

That was RJR Engineering of Califon Borough, which submitted a bid at $817,000.

RJR, however, withdrew its bid due to an error the company had made.

The other companies submitting bids included Vincent Pools of Pipersville, Pa., at $940,000; Ray Palmer Associates of Dover, $987,600; Carlton Pools of Warmester, Pa., $1,025,623, and Cypresco Industries Inc. of Neptune, $1,263,823.

Exciting Upgrade

An ordinance allowing the borough to issue $950,000 in bond anticipation notes for the work was adopted in the spring. The remaining $50,000 will be taken from the boroughs capital improvement fund as a down-payment.

In a previous interview, Borough Councilman William Zuckerman, the councils Community Services liaison, called the pending project exciting.

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Florham Park Council awards contract for pool makeover