District and project consultants told the facilities committee that the Career and Technical Education (CTE) building is advancing toward completion, with masonry, interior framing and site work visible in recent photographs and a planned substantial completion in July to allow a district move-in month before opening.

Tom Ritzenthaler of CS Arch said exterior masonry and interior classroom buildout are progressing and called the schedule “aggressive.” He told the committee the district’s objective remains to open the building in September following the July substantial-completion target.

Consultants presented contract and change-order totals during the briefing. Slides shown listed awarded contract value at $70,484,000 and state contracts totaling $4,152,812.09; the presentation listed approved change orders of $1,954,063 and an allowance used for unsuitable soils of $100,000, producing a stated total construction cost of $81,069,084.37. The slide also displayed a remaining contingency number that appears to be a transcription or presentation error (shown as $50,000,059,617.66), a figure the consultants did not correct during the meeting.

Warren Sackman of Jacobs said that with most structural work complete “there’s not a lot of unknown left,” and that he did not expect “much” to be drawn from contingency. Committee members asked whether the project would tap the contingency; consultants said small items may arise but they did not expect a major drawdown.

The consultants said drone aerials documenting monthly progress are available for public posting on the district project website; the meeting packet did not include recent aerials shown in the presenters’ notes. No formal budget action was taken during the meeting.