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Any delay in a decision to fund a new office building for Minnesota State Senators and their staff members could result in cost overruns on the entire State Capitol renovation project, the official in charge of the project warned Monday.

House Democrats haven't yet held a hearing on funding for the proposed $63 million Senate Office Building and a $27 million parking garage.

The current schedule for the Capitol renovation depends on the new Senate building. Construction is expected to start this spring with a goal of completing it by 2015. The plan is for about 16 senators, staffers and others to move from offices in the Capitol into the new building across the street. That move would then free up space for the renovation of the Capitol.

"To achieve a December 2016 opening for completion for Capitol restoration, you really have to keep moving with the current plan," said Wayne Waslaski, who is in charge of Capitol renovation. "If you have to step back and do redesign work then you're changing both the schedule and the cost for the Capitol restoration."

Waslaski said even a delay of one month would be costly, but couldn't say exactly how much it would cost taxpayers if the funding is delayed.

DFL Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk said he's unwilling to give up any space in the Capitol if the Senate office building is not finished on schedule.

"If that falls apart because the new building falls apart, I predict there will be tens of millions of dollars of cost overruns in the Capitol renovations because the two projects are so closely linked," Bakk said. "They really will have to go back to the drawing board of what the new Capitol is going to look like based on the current space allocation agreement."

Bakk said during Monday's Capitol Preservation Committee meeting that he wished Republicans would stop making the new building a partisan issue. But that may prove difficult. Governor Dayton signed the tax bill into law last year that included funding for the new building.

Since then, Republicans have characterized the building as a palace for politicians. They also questioned why the new building is even needed.

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An Albany construction firm responsible for projects across the region worth tens of millions of dollars suddenly ceased work last week.

Eastern Building & Restoration of Albany walked off jobs in Warrensburg, Saratoga Springs and in Albany, according to the company's clients.

One clients was the state Office of General Services, which oversees the state's property, from jails to office buildings.

OGS spokeswoman Heather Groll said Eastern Building's projects included work at Building 17 at the Harriman State Office Building Campus; duct and plumbing work at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, and work on the locker rooms at the Utica Armory, a building used by the National Guard.

"On Monday, OGS was informed by Eastern Building & Restoration that they would not be able to continue working on a number of state projects at the present time," Groll said.

Officials from Eastern Building could not be reached for comment. It did not appear as of Wednesday afternoon that the company had filed for bankruptcy protection.

Eastern Building was also doing renovation of the Saratoga Springs Police Department and was the general contractor for the $9.5 million Warrensburg Health Center, a project undertaken by Hudson Headwaters Health Network of Queensbury.

Howard Nelson, a spokesman for Hudson Headwaters Health Network, said workers for Eastern Building walked off the job on Friday at noon. He said that although Eastern Building was the general contractor, it won't hurt the project that much because nothing more than a hole has been dug. The project is also bonded, which provides insurance in such cases. The building, which will replace the Warrensburg Health Center, a primary care center, is still on schedule to be completed by this time next year.

"We don't expect this to slow it down much," Nelson said.

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With an attention to detail, a focus on honesty, and an emphasis on quality, Als Contractors Inc., located in Kinnelon, is a general contractor that keeps their customers satisfaction their top priority with each and every job that they tackle.

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(Left to right) Joe Love, a Glendale Terrace homeowner, Chris Lawrence and Al Zor of Als Contractors Inc., stand in the kitchen they worked on inside a Kinnelon home.A view of the tile work over the kitchen stove in a Glendale Terrace home. From kitchen designs and remodels, to finished basements, to siding or to bathroom restorations, Al Zor and his crew can do it all.

Owner, Al Zor, began his business in 1996, and he is so appreciative of his customers and their loyalty, as this word-of-mouth referral he has seen throughout the years even got the business through recent hard times that the economy and other local merchants encountered first hand.

"Over the years, I want to thank my past customers for their trust and dedication through the hard times of the economy," explained Zor. "We rode through the rough times of the economy crisis because of word-of-mouth, and it has gotten us through it where we were able to not only keep our crew, but add on to it as well."

Zor said about 95 percent of his business is from repeat customers or by word-of-mouth. He and his crew can complete little home repairs, to big renovations, and have even started to dabble in light commercial repairs.

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"We are very fortunate to work with the right people," he said.

With the recent addition of Donnelly to his crew, Zor said Donnelly, like his other crew members, focuses on not only customer satisfaction, but a specific attention to detail by listening to customers needs and wants, and then transcending this vision into a magnificent design.

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