North East opens bids for highway garage for new fencing to surround facility

North East opens bids for highway garage for new fencing to surround facility

The new North East town garage on Route 22, built to replace the old garage on South Center Street in Millerton.

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MILLERTON — On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Town of North East opened bids for the Highway garage’s fencing installation.
The town received bids from eight different potential candidates with the ranging costs of $166,000 to $328,676.

Currently, the town’s highway garage only has one side of the fencing completed and is looking to hire a company to install the other three sides. “The next step is we actually do a little research on the company that wins the bid, and we check the references … make sure that they can do what they say they’re going to be able to do. Then the board has to accept their bid,” Supervisor Chris Kennan said. “Just because bids have been submitted and somebody has the lowest bid doesn’t mean they have the job.”

The process of building the new highway garage began in 2022 with most of the construction happening during 2023. The final touches were wrapped up at the beginning of 2024. The new garage is now 12,720 square feet, which allows for more equipment to be stored and worked on — if needed — unlike the previous garage.

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