Turkey Creek Township attorney Andrew Grossnickle Monday, April 10, presented an updated list of renovations and improvements to Fire Stations 1 and 2 to the township board.

The list included the original “punch list” generated last year when funds were appropriated, a list of additional items, comments from the fire department’s building committee and Grossnickle’s notations.

The list included estimates “derived from the original bidding,” he said.

Grossnickle also met with the architect overseeing the project. “He was not able to get a formal proposal but he provided an estimate of his fees, which should be between $12,300 and $14,200. I will follow up with him this week,” said Grossnickle.

Board member Kimberly Cates suggested allowing the building committee more time to finalize the list and explore cost-effective alternatives. “I know this will delay the process a bit, but we want this done thoroughly and correctly,” she said.

“It may be moving at the speed of government, but it is moving,” noted Grossnickle.

Listed items include:

• Scraping, patching, cleaning and painting exterior and interior walls and ceilings.

• Adding insulation behind the metal siding and in the vehicle bay ceiling.

• Replacing or retrofitting light fixtures with cost-saving LED lights with a programmable timer system.

• Replacing deteriorating cedar siding with brick.

• Installing new carpet and tile.

• Replacing bathroom fixtures and expanding shower capabilities.

• Fixing all stair treads.

• Installing speakers in the showers, stairwells, computer room and outside the rear of Station 1 to enable firefighters to hear emergency calls everywhere on the premises.

• Installing heat runs or exhaust fans in the stairwells to prevent apparatus exhaust fumes from entering the upstairs living quarters.

• Installing an integrated alert system encompassing emergency calls, doorbells, phone calls, intercom, lighting and other features.

• Adding storage under staircases and a mop basin, floor drain and faucet in the second story addition to Station 1.

• Replacing the tile floor in the second-story entry and corridors. “The entire tile floor needs to be revisited,” reported the committee. “It was never properly installed and needs to be refurbished to the manufacturer’s specifications.”

The floor was installed three years ago, but the warranty expired after 12 months.

Township Trustee Barb Griffith issued her monthly report.

“I talked to Helen Wildemuth, who is remediating our cemeteries,” she said. “Helen will start work on the Union and Cable cemeteries within the next week, and she hopes to be finished by Memorial Day.”

According to Griffith’s March financial report, her office dispensed $865 in rent assistance, $3,397.38 in utilities and paid $1,500 for “two back-to-back” funerals.

The March NIPSCO expenditures of $2,019.70 represented a significant uptick, nearly equalling those of January and February combined.

Griffith explained the increase. “For the first two months of the year, people used their tax returns to pay their utilities and other bills. In March we saw the expenditures return to their normal level.”

The board will next meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 8, at Syracuse Town Hall.