The Lake Havasu Unified School District governing board approved a contract for parking‑lot renovations at Thunderbolt Middle School during its Oct. 16 meeting, authorizing procurement through a Job Order Contract (JOC) under the 1GPA cooperative contract.

Thomas, the district’s maintenance supervisor, told the board the project’s primary focus is asphalt renovation of the parking lot, drives, fire lanes, bus lanes and adjacent ways, including grading, demo, paving, curbing, parking stalls, directional signage and ADA striping. “This is a project that is desperately, desperately needed,” Thomas said.

The district will procure Concord General Contracting under the JOC agreement through the 1GPA cooperative contract (23-15PB-03). The submitted total for the work is $528,440. Thomas said the adjacent‑waste funding portion is $377,237 and the district’s portion is $151,202; the maintenance presentation asked the board to approve a not‑to‑exceed amount of $600,000 to cover contingencies.

The administration said the request aligns with board policy 3-109, which authorizes individual job construction services up to $2,000,000 without separate board authorization, and that funding will come from bond and other allowable capital funds, including adjacent waste funds pending approval by the Department of School Facilities.

The board moved and seconded the item and held a roll‑call vote. The motion passed; the transcript records unanimous affirmative responses in the roll call. The recorded vote responses in the meeting transcript were: “Evelyn Pizzling? Yes. Lisa Romano? Yes. Abby Houston? Yes. Susan Gross? Yes.”

The contract award is slated to proceed with the stated funding split and procurement method. The district will finalize contracting details with Concord General Contracting and proceed with site work once procurement and funds are in place.

Ending: Board members praised the use of a local contractor and the maintenance team; the item will appear in project tracking and future capital reports.