Bay Roberts approved final change order for Sheartstown Road project

By Mark Squibb

Bay Roberts council this April approved what staff and councillors are hoping are the final two change orders related to phase one of the Shearstown Road project.

Change Order 8 was for additional costs for property reinstatement, including additional topsoil, sods and asphalt for various properties along Shearstown Road in the amount of $96,234, HST included.

Change Order 9 was for $10,476 worth of additional curb and gutter over and above what had been approved in the previously approved Change Order 7.

The new change orders bring the total project construction cost to $ 2,569,902, HST included.

“This is the final, the final, please God, invoice for this contract,” quipped CAO Dave Tibbo.

Both change orders were approved unanimously.

The upgrades, which include road upgrades and installation of new water and sewer lines, was approved in December 2024, are cost shared between the town, the province, and the feds, with the feds pitching in $737,706 and the province and the town pitching in $737,485 a piece, for an initial total project cost of $2,212,676.

Costs above and beyond the original cost fall on the Town.