Gauging contractors’ interest and the next steps

Indications are as many as six to eight contractors showed interested in the first phase work for a new Westminster recreation complex.  The city’s recreation planning committee finds out the morning of September 28 how many companies offer bids to start work on the new Hall Road complex.  Westminster has been approved for a $5 million state grant, and the city administrator says there’s a chance to supplement those monies by acquiring second grant — this one through the National Park Service.  City administrator Bronson told the committee yesterday that a representative of the Land Water Conservation Fund visited the Hall Road property this week and was impressed by the possibilities.  Much of the talk at yesterday’s meeting centered on the ballfields, how they are to be positioned, and whether they will employ a natural or an artificial surface.  There was much curiosity on the part of committee members, including Councilman Adam Dunn, on what the city’s long time recreation director, Herb Poole, thinks should be best for the city’s recreation baseball and softball teams.  Bronson says the advisory recreation committee will have time to scrutinize the bids and to interview any number of bidders – all of this to lead to a recommendation for city council to award a bid in November.