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Board hears GMPs for middle-school life-cycle work and scope change request for Hebron field house
Summary
Staff presented guaranteed maximum prices (GMPs) for three middle-school life-cycle repair projects and proposed a scope adjustment for Hebron High School’s 2002 field house, asking to use land-sale proceeds to bring the facility in line with other high-school field houses and to improve sightlines and pedestrian flow.
District staff updated trustees on three 20-year life-cycle middle-school projects and presented a request to adjust the scope and funding source for work at Hebron High School’s older field house.
Randy (staff) said the bond program includes three GMPs for middle-school repairs: Creek Valley Middle School, Downing Middle School and Durham Middle School. He said the projects are standard life-cycle maintenance efforts that include furniture replacement and would each take two summers to complete. Staff reported the Downing GMP as $23,096,718 and the Durham GMP as $22,745,518; staff said each GMP was “within the overall project budget.” For Creek Valley the presenter reported the GMP figure during the meeting (verbatim): “provided a guaranteed maximum price of 21,000,000 to $202.27, dollars 7 hundred and 20 6, dollars 2 hundred and 20 7 thousand 7 hundred and 20 6,” and said Jackson Construction scoped the work and intends the first summer to tackle ceiling-and-above items and the library and auxiliary gym.
Trustees raised policy and budgeting questions. Several trustees asked the administration to postpone non-safety work on middle schools that had been discussed as possible closure candidates until the board finalizes a facilities plan. Trustee Miss Lassonde and Trustee Dr. Buddy Bonner explicitly asked that any projects identified as safety-related (for example, fire alarms or fire-suppression systems) be advanced while non-safety life-cycle projects be deferred for at least a year pending board decisions.
On Hebron High School, staff said the 2002 field house differs from facilities built in 2010 at other high schools and lacks comparable training, video, laundry and coach-support spaces. Staff also cited limited sight lines caused by a small ticket-building structure on the property. The administration proposed using $5.4 million in land-sale proceeds to expand the Hebron field house scope—bringing interior spaces into parity with other schools, removing the ticket booth, widening pedestrian flow, and adding a few parking spaces. Construction was planned to start after one more football season to minimize operational disruption.
Trustees sought assurances that the proposal would not affect M&O operating funds; staff said the adjustment would be funded from land-sale proceeds and would not be charged to M&O. The board directed staff to bring the GMP consent items to the next board meeting and to bring the Hebron scope-and-budget adjustment to the February consent agenda for consideration.
Ending: Staff said the GMP recommendations would appear on the next board consent agenda and that additional GMPs will arrive in coming months as the bond program moves into a busy procurement phase.
