KENT—In a quick session June 13, the Swift House Task Force approved expenditure of $14,231 to make some minimal upgrades to the old building on Maple Street. Swift House, owned by the town, is one of the oldest remaining buildings in the town’s center and is in need of major repairs and upgrades to make it code compliant.
The items approved last week were payment for a completed environmental review, $1,145; cleaning, wall and ceiling preparation, and painting of the large meeting room, $7,575; removal and replacement of molding around the ceiling, $2,200; and a vapor barrier and four inches of sprayed insulation under the floor of the back room, $4,300.
The Task Force has about $16,000 in the current budget and the work must be completed by June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
Chairman Suzanne Charity said the group had missed the availability of a carpenter that she had hoped to hire to take up a slanting floor in a storage area and to replace the joists underneath it to make it level. “I don’t think there is time to find another carpenter to do the work on that floor,” she said.
She shifted her attention to insulation under the back room, which is “so cold you can’t use it in the winter.”
