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Town of Massena begins process of building new 21,000 square-foot Highway Department garage

Posted 6/18/20

BY ANDY GARDNER North Country This Week MASSENA -- The town took a step towards building a new 21,000 square-foot Highway Department garage. The Town Council at their Wednesday, June 17 meeting …

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Town of Massena begins process of building new 21,000 square-foot Highway Department garage

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BY ANDY GARDNER
North Country This Week

MASSENA -- The town took a step towards building a new 21,000 square-foot Highway Department garage.

The Town Council at their Wednesday, June 17 meeting agreed to pay $170,000 on a deal with C&S Engineers, Inc. of Syracuse for project design fees. The meeting was streamed over Facebook Live.

Town Supervisor Steve O’Shaughnessy said he believes they will be able to get their engineering fees paid back through a grant, possibly USDA Rural Development.

O’Shaughnessy said the engineering firm is “going to draw up a couple scenarios.”

“They said the highway superintendent would be … welcome to go look at that and see how that would work out,” Councilor Sam Carbone said. “[Highway Superintendent Frank Diagostino] was going to have the crews look at it, see if they had any suggestions.”

As a starting concept, Diagostinso said the engineers showed them “a print of another building to start” and they can go from there.

The final presentation of a recent local government consolidation study recommended having the town Highway Department and Village Department of Public Works operate from a single garage, and eventually managed by one chief.

Rochester-based management consultants CGR authored the study with local input and presented it in December 2019.

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