MANSFIELD — Standard Plumbing & Heating Co. submitted the apparent low bid in a project to replace aging boilers at at the Richland County Dayspring Assisted Living & Care Facility.
Richland County commissioners on Thursday opened four bids for the work at the 99-year-old home at 3220 Olivesburg Road.
Standard Plumbing & Heating, based in Canton with an office in Mansfield, bid $240,880 for the project, which will replace two boilers, both more than 40 years old, with three new ones.
Cavalry Mechanical from Lorain County had the second-lowest bid at $251,485. The other two bids were submitted by CW Mechanical & Plumbing from Norwalk ($274,130) and Shakley Mechanical Inc. from Mansfield ($294,493).
Dayspring Executive Director Michelle Swank and Josh Hicks, the county’s maintenance superintendent, will review the four bids and likely return to commissioners next week with a recommendation.
Dayspring will use a $110,000 federal Community Development Block Grant received in 2023 to help fund the work, according to Swank. The rest will come from Dayspring’s budget using money that has already been set aside for the project, she said.
She said the current boilers are nearing “end of life” and the new ones need to be in place before winter.
“I can’t go (through) winter at Dayspring without heat for my elderly and disabled residents,” she said.
Swank said she currently has 55 residents at Dayspring, which has the capacity for 63.
Dayspring gets no money from the county’s general fund.
Instead, the facility relies heavily on a voter-approved property tax levy that provides more than 70 percent of its annual revenue.
Richland County voters in May 2023 approved the renewal of a five-year, 0.8-mill property tax, which generated more than $1.71 million in 2022 for the 226-acre Dayspring facility.
