"The bid results for the ECC of SCC were opened last Friday here at at the town hall and Sela Building Corporation came in with the lowest bid," Joe Seipel-Parks, Elkin Architect said. "We had 11 general contracting firms interested in bidding and received requests for nine bid packages. Seven contractors placed bids. Seven in Surry County, one in Wilkes County and one from Yadkin County contractors.
"Sela was the low bid at $995,548," Seipel-Parks said.
"While there were some bid alternatives to look at and consider, we preferred to keep the copper over the PVC piping and weren't willing to sacrifice the quality of the materials."
The board approved awarding the contract for construction of the ECC of SCC to Sela unanimously.
Dr. George O. Sappenfield, vice president for corporate & continuing education spoke to the commissioners regarding the new education center.
"We already offer Surry Community College classes in Elkin tucked away in closets, classrooms and other small spaces, but with the Elkin Center, we'll be able to offer not only instructional classes, but also curriculum classes," Sappenfield said. "We will be a learning center providing classes for GED, computer basics and we will have two complete computer labs and classes.
"We're hoping to have a public access room if we get the grant we applied for. We're getting everything we wanted in the building.
"Joe Seipel-Parks is a great architect and has brought his ideas to the table and now with an accepted construction bid, the center is on its way to completion."
Sappenfield spoke to the board on how the addition of the Elkin Center of Surry Community College will also help the Surry Economic Development Partnership.
"This will help Todd (Tucker) sell Elkin and Surry County," Sappenfield said. "The Elkin Center will allow our residents to have twenieth century skills for new businesses that look at Elkin and the county as possible locations to run their businesses."
Surry Economic Development Partnership President Todd Tucker spoke to the Elkin Board of Commissioners on Monday night as an update to the organizations new strategic plan.
"We working on a five-year plan," Tucker said. "We are also working with all the municipalities in the county by moving forward with marketing of the area to business that may be interested in our area.
"In January, a group of business owners as well as myself went to Chicago to promote Surry County," he said. "We've been to Charlotte, Columbia and Greenville, S.C. and at the end of March I'll be traveling to Atlanta."
Tucker told the board of four new marketing brochures that the partnership is working on and how they hope to link to existing state tourism and business venue Internet sites.
"We're also working on our own website to give it more functionality," he said. "We hope to promote our area to more and more businesses who will move here or become entrepreneurs in Surry County."
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