Hospital trustees reversed their decision Tuesday night to retain Martens Appraisal to review land parcels for a new Allen County Hospital. Instead, the group settled on Aul & Hatfield Appraisals, LC, of Lawrence.
The change was made primarily because the Martens proposal jumped $2,000, up from $8,000, when architects added an additional parcel of land measuring a bit more than half an acre to the site.
Trustees then revisited the requests for proposals and selected Aul & Hatfield, whose revised bid came in at $5,900, up $500 from their original…
