Roof Work Underway At Town Buildings In Canton

Roofing material and construction equipment are at Canton Intermediate School. Town officials recently approved contracts for roof replacement work there and at the community center. (Ken Byron / July 19, 2013)

CANTON Two roof replacement jobs for municipal buildings have been approved and work on one has begun.

The board of selectmen approved contracts for replacing parts of the roofs at Canton Intermediate School and the community center when it met on July 11. This week, materials for the work at the intermediate school and construction equipment were at the school. Town Chief Administrative Officer Robert Skinner said on Friday that the school project is expected to be done by Aug. 22, in time for classes to start in the fall.

At the intermediate school, Silktown Roofing of Manchester was given the contract and it will be paid $367,905. Officials said that is within budget.

Roof work at the community center will cost $397,455, according to the contract that the selectmen approved and Imperial Company Inc. of Cromwell has been hired to do the job. According to minutes of the selectmen's July 11 meeting, Imperial was hired because the lowest bidder for the job could not provide the required level of insurance. But Skinner told the selectmen that the contract with Imperial is still within the budget allocated for the work.

Skinner said on Friday that the contract with Imperial has not been signed yet but that he expects work will start in the next few weeks.

Voters approved $3.23 million for roof replacement projects in a referendum held last November. In addition to the community center and the intermediate school, plans are to replace parts of the roofs at Cherry Brook Primary School and Canton High School.

Skinner said the plan is to do the work at Cherry Brook and the high school next summer. A contractor is in the middle of building a running track and playing field along with a new parking lot and driveway at the high school and Skinner said it would be unrealistic to do the roof project now as well.

Town officials anticipate that the state will reimburse the town for about 35 percent of the cost of the roof work at the two schools.

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Roof Work Underway At Town Buildings In Canton