Amador County – Joining the list of state entities with years-long projects frozen by the state, the Plymouth Lodge Hill Committee has seen its $240,000 grant slide into the status of frozen funding. Committee members met with a city engineer Wednesday morning to try to iron out some details for the project, hoping to take the information they gather to the Plymouth City Council in February with a plea to send the project out for bids, regardless of those frozen funds. Committee Member Maria Nunez Simon said the Lodge Hill Committee’s $240,000 Proposition 40 recreation grant was frozen for 6 months by the state Legislature. The committee already spent $10,000 on engineering with city engineer Weber, Ghio & Associates, and Weber Ghio’s Project manager Norm Hulett was gleaning bid and project information from the committee Wednesday and telling about parts of the project’s designs, inside and out. The committee said the galvanized steel siding on the outside of the Lodge should stay in place, while inside, the main level of the building will lose a wall between the kitchen area and the great room. There will be a deck wrapping around the outside of the building, outside of the kitchen, and along the long side of the building, on the side overlooking the city pool. There will be a handicapped-accessible unisex restroom beside the kitchen. On the long deck side of the building, there will be double doors with a window on each side, to bring in the natural light. Hulett said a state Title 24-required energy analysis will audit energy use and ensure adequate and efficient heating, cooling, windows, insulation and water heating. The upper floor will be left alone for this project and be remodeled in a later phase. The Lodge Hill Committee will ask the city council in February to push the remodel toward opening it for bids. The committee includes Elanor Faddis, Nunez Simon, Lee Simon, Barbara Nicholson, Joanne Kerner, Raymond Estey, Patricia Fordyce and Gloria Stoddard. Story by Jim Reece (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:00
Lodge Hill Committee's Grant Frozen
Amador County – Joining the list of state entities with years-long projects frozen by the state, the Plymouth Lodge Hill Committee has seen its $240,000 grant slide into the status of frozen funding. Committee members met with a city engineer Wednesday morning to try to iron out some details for the project, hoping to take the information they gather to the Plymouth City Council in February with a plea to send the project out for bids, regardless of those frozen funds. Committee Member Maria Nunez Simon said the Lodge Hill Committee’s $240,000 Proposition 40 recreation grant was frozen for 6 months by the state Legislature. The committee already spent $10,000 on engineering with city engineer Weber, Ghio & Associates, and Weber Ghio’s Project manager Norm Hulett was gleaning bid and project information from the committee Wednesday and telling about parts of the project’s designs, inside and out. The committee said the galvanized steel siding on the outside of the Lodge should stay in place, while inside, the main level of the building will lose a wall between the kitchen area and the great room. There will be a deck wrapping around the outside of the building, outside of the kitchen, and along the long side of the building, on the side overlooking the city pool. There will be a handicapped-accessible unisex restroom beside the kitchen. On the long deck side of the building, there will be double doors with a window on each side, to bring in the natural light. Hulett said a state Title 24-required energy analysis will audit energy use and ensure adequate and efficient heating, cooling, windows, insulation and water heating. The upper floor will be left alone for this project and be remodeled in a later phase. The Lodge Hill Committee will ask the city council in February to push the remodel toward opening it for bids. The committee includes Elanor Faddis, Nunez Simon, Lee Simon, Barbara Nicholson, Joanne Kerner, Raymond Estey, Patricia Fordyce and Gloria Stoddard. Story by Jim Reece (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). 
