Douglas Senior Center gets sunroom

GUNTERSVILLE The Marshall County Commission agreed to add a sunroom porch at the rear of the new Douglas Senior Center, currently under construction.

The addition adds an estimated $66,600 to the project and pushes the total cost to nearly $335,000.

The original budget for the project was $372,500, which included $250,000 of community development block grant funding from the state and $122,500 in matching funds from the county.

Even with the addition of the sunroom, were still under budget, said County Engineer Bob Pirando.

The center is under budget because of three factors, outlined in a project summary distributed at a public hearing Monday.

No. 1, officials anticipated higher construction bids when they started the grant application in 2009.

Secondly, the original application included the cost of the buildings concrete pad, but the county ended up doing the work.

Finally, the original project design included a sunroom porch, but officials inadvertently left it off the 2011 bid drawings.

The new center on Stadium Circle is four times larger than the old facility and should be completed later this year.

The Commission had to hold a public hearing on the proposed amendment Monday because the state requires one if the change costs more than 10 percent of the projects budget.

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Douglas Senior Center gets sunroom