Design setbacks, water-pressure limits and state review slow Mountain View Middle School project

Design work for a replacement Mountain View Middle School is largely finished, but state review delays and a low-pressure water line at the site have forced the district and the architectural team to plan a pump house and to press state funding partners for faster decisions, Roswell Independent School District officials said Aug. 12. The district's architect, Joseph Gallegos of Hewitt-Zollars, told the Board of Education the project passed through schematic and design-development phases and is awaiting approval from the Public School Facilities Authority (PSFA). He said a PSFA approval letter is needed before the design team can move to construction documents and bidding. The PSFA review and recent adoption of updated state design standards have slowed the schedule, Gallegos said, and PSFA staff turnover complicated how the new standards should apply to an already-moving…