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Fire hall to stay within budget
Plans for $9.6-million Boundary Bay Airport facility revised, trade contracts approved IAN JACQUES
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Construction can proceed on a fire hall at Boundary Bay Airport after Delta council has approved all the trade contracts for the project. The trade contracts come in at just over $4.8 million of the $9.6 million total project cost.
An initial round of tenders for construction that closed in 2017 indicated the project as initially designed was going to exceed the available budget, so while council approved contracts for the site preparation at that time, it directed staff to modify the design to reduce the overall project costs and keep it within budget.
Director of finance Karl Preuss said staff went back to the architect and fire department and revised the design. The building design was simplified, which brought the project costs down significantly. “I think the biggest change was in the roof design,” said fire Chief Paul Scholfield. “It went from a highly technical roof to
a more industrial roof and that saved a lot of money.” Besides housing the fire department, the 12,739-squarefoot building located near the 80th Street overpass will also include a post-disaster emergency operations centre, corporate training centre and fire training facility. “The architects have done
a great job of utilizing the full area of the land,” Schofield said. “The training tower and training area will be at the south of the building and we will be able to have a lot of training opportunities that we have never had before, so we are pretty excited about that.” The project is expected to be complete by March 2019.
Modifications to the design of the fire hall planned for Boundary Bay Airport were needed after initial tenders exceeded the project’s budget.
Paramedics help distraught man avoid being victim of fraud
Fraudsters are threatening Delta residents with deportation and arrest in a variation on the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scam, according to Delta police. Paramedics contacted DPD to report that a distraught man had stopped at the ambulance sta-
tion on Scott Road last Thursday morning, stating that people were after him. Officers attended and spoke with the man, who advised that he had received a phone call that morning from someone claiming to work for the CRA.
The fraudster stated the man owed $5,249 in unpaid taxes and that he and his family would be arrested and deported if he did not pay immediately. The man had withdrawn money from the bank and was on route to a Bitcoin ATM when
he pulled into the ambulance station looking for help. “The gentleman made the right decision in asking for help,” said DPD public affairs coordinator Cris Leykauf. “And we’re very pleased the paramedic called police on his behalf.
Because of those decisions the man has not lost any money.” Leykauf said the CRA scam is particularly prevalent in Delta right now. She and others at the DPD have been contacted on their work and home phones by fraudsters.
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