Weatherly Borough Council on Monday rejected all bids for the Eurana Park project, as they continue to exceed the grant amount.

Council hopes to rebid a scaled-back project one more time before the grant runs out, and the borough loses more than $232,000 in federal funding.

The borough received the grant through the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources three years ago, and bid the project repeatedly this year without success.

The first time, no one bid on the project, even though five firms took specification packets. The second time, the bids came in more than twice the grant amount.

The borough then broke down the project into three contracts: earthwork, paving and fencing. Last month, it only received fencing bids from two contractors, and tabled those.

Council then rebid the earthwork and paving. The bids were opened Aug. 19, and two contractors bid, Lehigh Asphalt Paving and Construction Co. and Barker and Barker Paving and Excavating.

“The bids came in again extremely high. Lehigh Asphalt and Paving for both the excavating and paving came in at $429,458.70 and Barker had come in at $358,607.50,” Borough Manager Harold Pudliner told council.

Lehigh Asphalt bid $217,325.70 on earthwork contract and $212,133 on paving; and Barker and Barker bid $204,632 on the earthwork and $153,975 on the paving.

The borough also had fencing bids of $113,840 from Rutkoski Fencing Inc. and $86,000 from Minichi Inc., which would be added to project costs, if the contracts were awarded.

“They were well beyond our capabilities from the grant,” Pudliner said.

Pudliner reached out to the borough’s DCNR grant adviser to see what options were available, and the suggestion was to see if the low bidder would consider continuing with some items removed from the contract, he said.

DCNR also suggested talking to the borough solicitor, who advised to rebid the contract.

The borough will now rebid the project to include the basketball and pickleball courts, and a handicapped walkway from the parking lot to the courts, Pudliner said.

“We only have until the end of the year to get this done,” he said. “To turn back $232,000 without anything being done would be terrible.”

Pudliner previously pointed out that although the borough had the grant for three years, there was a great deal of paperwork associated with the grant with had to be completed before they could move forward.