Plum Lake community center building committee meets for first time

With the award to the town of Plum Lake by the federal government of a grant of $4,250,000 to fund construction of new community center in Sayner, the first meeting of the committee that will oversee the project took place Monday.

Plum Lake town chair Jackey Postuchow, who along with town supervisors Jona Eliason and Kevin Rasmussen are part of the committee, told The Lakeland Times Tuesday much of Monday’s meeting was organizational in nature, including gathering the information needed for submission of 17 documents to the government in support of the grant. 

“To get the grant process started,” she said and she explained what the town had received earlier in October was an official letter of notification from the Wisconsin Department of Administration the Flexible Facilities Program (FFP) grant had been awarded. 

“What we have to do is turn around and give them all of our documents like where we bank through, basically all of our contact information, insurance policies the town holds, contracts we have with an architect and grant administrator,” Postuchow said. “All that documentation has to go to our FFP representatives and then they’ll start paying for stuff.”

The project architect is Steve Jamroz of Blue Design Group in Hortonville who’s no stranger to area towns such as Boulder Junction; Jamroz designed the Boulder Junction community center.

As part of the project, the town offices are to be incorporated into the new community center which will leave the future of the current Plum Lake town hall to be decided by town electors.

“Being the building is as old as it is, it needs a new heating and air conditioning system, the electrical system needs to be updated, the bathrooms need to be ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) compliant,” Postuchow said. “There’s a laundry list of things that need to be done to the town hall.”

She said the town’s annual meeting in April will more than likely be when electors will be asked to vote on what will become of the town hall.

According to provisions of the FFP grant, Postuchow said, construction of the new community center must be started by July 1, 2025.

“A lot got done at Monday’s meeting, we got a lot figured out,” she said. “It’s going to be a long process with a lot of meetings in the coming weeks to hammer out the fine details.”

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