Grace Kirchner Leader Correspondent
Several more buildings are slated to come down next week in Clintonville.
The city’s Common Council accepted the lowest bid out of four Tuesday night from Kersten Excavating, LLC, for $76,000, to demolish a former bowling alley and the Sawyer Electronics buildings located on 11th Street.
The buildings are owned by the city and are being demolished because of building conditions that are not habitable or safe for public use.
City Administrator Chuck Kell said that, based on the bid award and other associated costs with the removal of the buildings, the total project cost will be approximately $15,000 less than the $130,000 budgeted for the project.
Demolition is to start sometime next week with Public Works Manager Kray Brown supervising the demolition by the contractor.
A raze order had been issued for one of the buildings in June 2015 by Scott Nordin, of Nordin Design Group, who had determined the cost to repair the building would not be economically feasible or prudent.
Waupaca County Department of Health and Human Services Environmental Health Manager Jed Wohlt said two years ago that the building was beyond uninhabitable.
Money for the project had been set aside from the 2016-17 borrowed money.
The city recently demolished the remains of the China King building at 46A South Main St. following a fire in the building, and the owner did not have insurance. The city ended up paying $47,000 to remove that building.
Kell said it has been determined that the building at 49 S. Main St. that also had a fire could be repaired. The city is in the process of having the city attorney prepare a raze or repair order for the property.