{"id":6791,"date":"2012-01-25T17:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2012-01-25T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:06:49","slug":"pocopson-ready-to-move-forward-on-barnard-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=6791","title":{"rendered":"Pocopson ready to move forward on Barnard House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Township eyes funds already borrowed to pay for $1 mil. project<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Kelli Siehl<\/strong>, Staff Writer, UnionvilleTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The historic Barnard House is slated to house Pocopson's municipal offices as well as the Kennett Underground Railway Musuem, once renovations are complete.<\/p><\/div>\n

POCOPSON \u2014 Township Supervisors are no longer \u201cjust talking\u201d about renovations to the historic Barnard House.<\/p>\n

At Monday\u2019s township meeting, Supervisors voted unanimously to pay Melton Architects roughly $30,000 to prepare a project bid package \u2014 the first step to getting the renovation project under way.<\/p>\n

At the Jan. 9 Board of Supervisors\u2019 meeting, board Chair Steve Conary noted that an excess $1 million dollars from funds borrowed for the township\u2019s open space project, which concluded at the end of 2011, could be used to renovate the Barnard structure. The extra funds in the credit line were remaining after initial cost estimates for open space purchases proved to be higher than the final purchase costs.<\/p>\n

Supervisors expressed interest in this idea since the loan carries a \u201clow 2.7% interest rate,\u201d and would probably bear a substantial penalty for early repayment.<\/p>\n

Since the information from the architect was obtained just hours before the Jan. 9 meeting, Supervisors wanted to review the document before voting to move forward.<\/p>\n

At Monday\u2019s meeting, Conary said, \u201cI think (we need) to get the drawings put together and the construction package put together so we can go out for a bid and find out what this is really going to cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putting the project out to bid does not obligate the township to do the project \u2014 should circumstances change or the bids be too high, the township supervisors have the right to reject any and all bids received.<\/p>\n

Supervisors are seeking additional grant money to cover some of the costs related to outdoor recreation as the historic structure sits in the middle of the township\u2019s extensive trail system.<\/p>\n

Plans for the building include relocating the township office and meeting rooms, as well as leasing space to the Kennett Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Township eyes funds already borrowed to pay for $1 mil. project Kelli Siehl, Staff Writer, UnionvilleTimes.com POCOPSON \u2014 Township Supervisors are no longer \u201cjust talking\u201d about renovations to the historic Barnard House. At Monday\u2019s township meeting, Supervisors voted unanimously to pay Melton Architects roughly $30,000 to prepare a project bid package \u2014 the first step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[301,10,850],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-barnard-house","tag-pocopson","tag-renovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}