By Jim Reece -

Work progresses on the Amador County Museum, but once the roof is repaired sometime in November, that likely will not be the end of renovation. The Museum could remain closed due to a recent action by the Board of Supervisors, waiving a formal bid process for a contract addendum to Otto Construction Inc., in the maximum sum of 113,955 dollars. The board also OK’d the General Services director to make glass purchases of 22,600 dollars and another purchase of consulting of 5,200 dollars. In the vote, Supervisors also took action to keep the Museum closed until after the roof repair project was completed. The action also would keep the museum closed “until the second phase of structural work and (Americans with Disabilities Act) modifications are completed and funding becomes available from sources other than the General Fund.” The closure of the Museum came this year as long time Curator Georgia Fox retired. General Services Director Jon Hopkins said there was no immediate plans to hire a new curator at the Museum. He said the Board of Supervisors elected to close the museum until ADA corrections and also second-floor structural improvements were made. He said the roofing would be finished sometime in November, but the ADA and Second-floor repairs had no timeline as “no funding was going to be able to pay that unless it was from outside sources.” Hopkins said last week that no estimates had been made on the work, but “guess-timates” saw those additional repair costs to be 300,000 or 400,000 dollars.