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PORT ANGELES — Additional costs of The Gateway transit center could come to $150,000, rather than the $650,000 originally reported.
Clallam Transit General Manager Terry Weed clarified Friday that the unsettled costs with The Gateway transit center won’t add as much as $650,000 to the project at the public’s expense as erroneously reported in a Page A1 story in the Clallam County edition on Dec. 6.
Weed wrote in an e-mail that negotiations the city and Clallam Transit are engaged in with Krei Architecture and Primo Construction over costs involve:
■ $500,000 that the city and Clallam Transit are seeking in reimbursement from Krei Architecture.
■ $150,000 that Primo Construction is seeking in reimbursement from the city and Clallam Transit.
The Dec. 6 story erroneously said that Weed estimated that the negotiations could add as much as $650,000 to the city’s and Clallam Transit’s project costs.
The additional costs to the public could only be as high as $150,000, if Primo Construction gets reimbursed for its additional expense claim.
To date, the project has cost $15.36 million, according to the city. About $8.1 million came from state and federal grants, $500,000 from Clallam Transit and about $6.76 million from the city.
The project — which includes a pavilion, 174 parking spaces, a transit lane, clock tower, break room for bus drivers, office for the Port Angeles downtown resource police officer, public restrooms and a yet-to-be-open ticket center — was estimated to cost $14.7 million.
The city has applied for a $550,000 federal grant that would also reimburse its expenses on the project.
Myers and Weed both said that they are “hopeful” that the final costs will be resolved during the first quarter of next year.
The facility was fully opened, except for the ticket center, in June.
Weed said that Clallam Transit doesn’t have the funds to staff the ticket center next year.
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Reporter Tom Callis can be reached at 360-417-3532 or at tom.callis@peninsuladailynews.com.
