Statehouse Contruction Update

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STATEHOUSE CONTRUCTION SLIGHTLY BEHIND SCHEDULE

Boise--The two-year, $120 million Statehouse rennovation project is on budget but more than a month behind schedule according to the Department of Public Works. The delay could push back the finish date to the start of the 2010 legislative session.

The facelift updates and expands the grand 1912 building. The project includes repairs to the original marble, decorative plaster and wooden doors, upgrading electrical, sewer and ventilation systems, and adding more than 50,000 square feet with the underground wings.

The Legislature met in the smaller old Ada County Courthouse last session and will meet again there in January during the remodel. The completion date remains Nov. 18, 2009, just a month before the beginning of the 2010 session.

Despite the delays caused by Governor Butch Otter's the last-minute change from a two-story to one-story underground wings, still the contractors think they made up a lot of lost time this past summer.