With still no end date in sight for the Tisbury Emergency Services Facility building, now long overdue for completion, one town selectman expressed open frustration Tuesday and called for a new strategy.

“We have to have an end game here,” said selectman Tristan Israel. “Maybe the end game at this point should be, this is the end, we are going to hire our own people to do it [complete the building], and we are going to go to court and charge [the contractor] back with the difference.”

The $7.38 million, 18,000-square-foot building on West Spring street across from the elementary school was approved by voters three years ago and was due to be completed last summer. Construction flaws identified more than a year ago included a misaligned foundation, buckled steel supports and drainage issues. The general contractor, Seaver Construction of Woburn, has already paid the town more than $18,000 in penalties to cover damages and project delays. The latest move-in date for the building was July 1. The building will house the town fire, ambulance and emergency management staff and equipment.

The discussion at the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday came following a report from building committee chairman Joseph Tierney on a punch list of items, finished and unfinished. Mr. Tierney said wood shingles have been replaced on the front of the building, and he expects to receive a report next week from the roof inspector. There are still no results back from an asphalt test done on the paved aprons around the building. The asphalt work was done by White Brothers-Lynch Corporation.

Responding to Mr. Israel’s idea, town administrator John Bugbee said bringing in new contractors at this stage could cause other problems, including with the warranties on the roof of the building.

“I hear you, but we’ve been hearing this for two years,” Mr. Israel replied. “We can’t go through the winter, which it looks like we are heading into, with this stuff going on. If there are warranty issues, maybe the problem is that they did not do the right work to begin with.”

Mr. Bugbee said he will explore the possibility of hiring new contractors.

And Mr. Israel was not the only one unhappy about the ESF building this week. Clifford and Leah Dorr, whose property abuts the building, attended the selectmen’s meeting to complain that a promised landscape plan to screen the building from their residential property was never completed. “When you come out of our door or our driveway, the full view of the ESF building is essentially our view, and you feel like you’re right on display,” said Mrs. Dorr. “We were told that plantings would be put in to help screen our property, and there was a little bit of landscaping that happened. However, it was done in a very haphazard way.”

She added: “You don’t feel like there’s a lot of care and effort in restoring the property line.”

The Dorrs said they would be happy to do the landscaping work themselves if the town would supply the plants and other materials. Mrs. Dorr estimated the cost at $6,000.

Selectman and board chairman Jeffrey Kristal apologized for the problems and promised the board will review the proposal and have an answer for the Dorrs in a week.