Fire hall tenders

The fate of a new fire hall in the City of Kenora is somewhat up in the air.

Council had hoped to award a tender for the project by the end of last month.

But councillor Charito Drinkwalter says the bids came in higherthan expected.

She adds that they are going back to the drawing board to try andreduce the cost of the project and bring it more in line with theiroriginal budget, which is about 4.5 to five million dollars.