Plymouth Life facility work on hold

The Plymouth County Supervisors will further discuss tuckpointing the Plymouth Life residential care facility with a bidder Friday.

The supervisors decided a conference call with a Karr Tuckpointing representative is needed before they can approve a $63,436 contract with the company to do tuckpointing repairs at the care facility.

The conference call with Karr will be held during the supervisors' 8:30 a.m. Friday meeting when they come together to canvass Tuesday's election.

Supervisor Gordon Greene wanted clarification of several points in Karr's contract including why the company guarantees its work for two years and why it didn't bid a portion of the project.

"If we are going to spend that amount of money, they should come and talk to us before we do anything," Greene said.

Supervisor Craig Anderson said $60,000 is a lot of money, but compared to the 58 years the care facility has existed it's really only a little more than $1,000 a year in maintenance costs.

Anderson said he was disappointed that Karr, of Vinton, was the only company to bid the project.

Supervisor Don Kass said because it is a specialty there are few companies in the area that do tuckpointing.

Along with tuckpointing, the supervisors also discussed repairs needed at the Plymouth Life residential care facility after an annual fire marshal inspection.

Most of the work that needs to be done involves wiring, said Mike Porter, CEO of Pride Group. He said local electricians can be hired to do that.

But an outside company with experience in fire inspection will have to be hired to certify the repair work, Porter said.

"This is a need and a have-to," he said.

Porter is working to obtain price quotes from area companies to make the repairs.