Contractors and area officials and volunteers wrangling with problems at the unfinished Greenville sports complex hashed it out behind closed doors and then toured the 42-acre site together Friday.

Officials said progress was made during the two-hour meeting. The estimated $1.8 million project is 16 months behind schedule and at least $200,000 over budget.

Borough solicitor Warren Keck III said a spring opening on at least some of the soccer and softball fields is planned.

Another meeting at the complex is tentatively set for Thursday, hopefully when the weather is more springlike.

Friday morning temperatures were in the upper teens, with a wind chill in single digits. Snow blanketed the complex, covering some problems. In some spots along the paved walking trail, snow covered a drop of as much as 6 inches on one or both sides of the trail -- the result of groundwater running downhill. Several sprained ankles were narrowly avoided.

Representatives for all seven contractors, the project designer and planner, borough council, Greenville Area Leisure Services Association and area citizen advisory committees attended Friday's meeting.

Those parties first gathered for more than an hour inside one of the three buildings on site; the media was not allowed in. David P. Henderson, a councilman and GALSA board president, said no one has any bones to pick with the building contractor, Anderson Construction. A cracked floor in one of the buildings was the result of a faulty drain, Henderson said.

Problems between local officials and at least some of the other six contractors, then, must have been the reason for loud talking that was audible outside the building and above whipping winds.

During a half-hour tour of the complex, the parties acted amiably, aside from a few flare-ups.

"We talked to you about 80 percent of these things (problems) last May or June," GALSA board member Greg Goehring told John Buerkle, a landscape architect with Pashek & Associates of Coraopolis. The firm has handled all the change orders from contractors.

Buerkle said he could not see many of the problems because of the snow, and scheduled another meeting at the complex for Thursday. "Hopefully, there will be less snow," he said, adding that James Pashek, who heads Pashek & Associates, will attend the meeting.