EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bricks & Mortar Report provides updates on major construction projects in Chenango County.
Chenango County Public Works Department:
• The Race Road bridge in Greene is slated to be opened to motorists this week for the first time since the 2006 floods damaged it. The project’s cost was 100 percent reimbursable by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
• Chenango County DPW crews are scheduled to install a box culvert on county Rt. 38 on Oct. 20.
• Work continues on the pedestrian and biking trail along county Rt. 32 from Oxford to Greene. The new shoulders have been paved and striped. Crews will level the areas beyond the shoulders this week.
Delaware Chenango Madison Otsego (DCMO) BOCES:
• The 108,000 square foot addition and interior renovations are approximately 95 percent finished. Construction continues in the evenings installing light fixtures, tile and other punch list items.
• Steve Perrin, a program director at BOCES, said future work will address the culinary arts kitchen and bakery, a nurse’s office and a human services classroom.
• The new classroom wing that faces East River Road in North Norwich houses special education and alternative education classrooms. Students are currently occupying them.
• The project included a state-of-the-art science lab, library-media center, cafeteria, gymnasium, conference rooms and new technology.