While the estimates revealed positive strides for a committee trying to curb renovation costs to fit a tight $1.7 million budget, it also showed that more work still is needed to decrease costs further. That number, which is not a final estimate but more of a malleable price point to further work with, includes more than $85,000 budgeted for contingency costs, which architects Silver and Brian Cleveland said may not end up being spent, as well as an additional $210,000 the town is predicted to pay contractors to build out the project.
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