The Kennett supervisors could begin meeting again in the township building by March.
The supervisors have held meetings at neighboring municipal buildings for months while work is being done to remediate a mold problem in the public meeting room. On Wednesday they met in the new Kennett Borough building; in previous months they met at the New Garden Township building. They have not held hybrid meetings since Aug. 17.
“We’re not at our usual place…due to circumstances with mold,” Supervisors’ Chairman Richard Leff said at the start of Wednesday’s meeting. “We hope to be back there sometime early/middle of next year.”
Township Public Works Director Theodore Otteni told the supervisors that the remediation and repairs are expected to be finished by March and that someone was at the building Wednesday to start on the drywall.
“We’re shooting for mid-March for us to be back there,” he said.
In his report, he said the township got a quote from a vendor “to perform all rehabilitation work and renovations, which was determined to be too costly. Subsequently, quotes have been solicited … to rehabilitate the basement … in an effort to achieve the most cost-effective rehabilitation.”
The repairs, which include waterproofing to prevent high groundwater from causing future mold issues, are part of the township’s capital budget.
About Monica Fragale
Monica Thompson Fragale is a freelance reporter who spent her life dreaming of being in the newspaper business. That dream came true after college when she started working at The Kennett Paper and, years later The Reporter newspaper in Lansdale and other dailies. She turned to non-profit work after her first daughter was born and spent the next 13 years in that field. But while you can take the girl out of journalism, you can’t take journalism out of the girl. Offers to freelance sparked the writing bug again started her fingers happily tapping away on the keyboard. Monica lives with her husband and two children in Kennett Square.
