The city of Vicksburg has received an additional $120,000 in federal funds to perform additional work at the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Depot on Levee Street.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen Monday approved a resolution accepting the additional money, which increases the $417,475 in federal Transportation Alternative Program grant funds it received in 2014 to $537,475.

The grant, which is administered by the Mississippi Department of Transportation, will be used to make repairs to the building that were not the result of the 2011 spring Mississippi River Flood. The money will cover 80 percent of the more than $600,000 project cost, with the city paying 20 percent. The grant is a reimbursement grant, which means the city will pay for the work and be reimbursed through the grant.

The initial plan for the repair project involved replacing ornamental wood work on the building’s exterior, repairing the building’s 48 windows, painting the depot’s exterior, replacing its elevator, repairing the building’s cupola on the roof, and renovations to the building’s front door to make it handicap-accessible.

City landscape director Jeff Richardson said the cost of the project, originally estimated at $521,844, increased after the architect hired for the project began inspecting the building and found problems with the cupola and the elevator.

“The cupola needed more work that what the original estimate was, and the elevator, those were the two big ones,” Richardson said. “Also, they pointed out some cracking in the brick on the north wall. Some of the lintels (cross pieces over an opening) are in bad shape.”

The depot’s elevator has been a problem since the building reopened in 2012, at times trapping people inside on the third floor, which houses the Vicksburg Main Street offices and a conference room used by Main Street and the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, which shares the second floor with part of the Old Depot Museum. No date was given when the work will begin.