Less than 48 hours after the lawmakers ended the legislativesession, Gov. Peter Shumlin brought a thick stack of their work the Capital Bill to Waterbury and signed it where he hopes itwill make an impact: at the state office complex. This year's capital bill is an update to legislation fromlast year, which went into effect before the devastation ofTropical Storm Irene. The new bill re-allocates $12 million forrenovation projects to the Waterbury complex, $5 million for a newstate hospital facility and dedicates the first $15 million of anybudget surplus in the fiscal year 2012 to rebuilding efforts. The Waterbury campus, which housed 1,500 workers with the Agency ofHuman Services, the Agency Natural Resources, the Department ofPublic Safety and Vermont State Hospital, was hit hard by Irene. The funds will bolster incoming money from the Federal EmergencyManagement Agency as well as insurance claims still due to thestate. I said when Irene hit that it was our opportunity to rebuildVermont better than the way Irene found us, Shumlin said, andthere is no better example than what is going to happen right herein Waterbury, or for that matter, downtown Barre, as we bring ourstate workforce to green, clean, energy efficient workspace thatwill allow them to be efficient for Vermonters into the 21stcentury. Part of the problem now facing the state is funding. Despitepromises of money both from insurance and FEMA, the administrationstill doesn t know how much they can count on for the project, which originally would have provided workspace for 1,024 workers atan estimated cost of $135 million. Shumlin called for the plans to be reconfigured to cut costs andto accommodate about 900 workers, but the project will likely be atleast $100 million. Jeb Spaulding, secretary of the Agency of Administration, said thestate would probably have to invest at least $50 million in theproject. We re still looking at after insurance and after FEMA it sstill a ballpark figure but it could be $50 to $80 million overmultiple years, Spaulding said. The historic buildings at the front of the complex will beremodeled and some of the buildings closer to the river will bedemolished. Shumlin said it would include at least one all-newbuilding. The offices should be set to reopen within three years,the governor said. We ll be tearing down a number of the buildings that, frankly,we wish we didn t have in the first place, he said. We ll berebuilding the historic infrastructure … so that we ll haveenergy efficient built-in space, and we ll be building a new,state-of-the-art building right in back of these historic buildingsthat will provide quality workspace for the future. The office complex isn't the only thing in Waterbury left inrough shape by the storm. While some downtown businesses closed inthe immediate aftermath of the flood, Shumlin said he is worriedabout the slow bleed of business losses accumulating while thestate offices are closed. "There are businesspeople here, and I don t want to singlethem out, who will tell you that their restaurants and otherbusinesses are suffering because the state employees aren t hereto buy the services that they always bought in Waterbury, Shumlinsaid. So the challenge is, now that we ve made the decision tocome back: How do we move faster than the skeptics have said toensure that we don t lose more business in Waterbury between nowand when we bring the state employees back?. I am an expert from continuous-castingmachine.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Continuous Casting Machine Manufacturer , Casting Slabs Manufacturer, Billet Casting Machine,and more.
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