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Supervisors approve final change order for courthouse roof; project finishes over budget by roughly 3–3.5%
Summary
The Board approved change order No. 8 with Renaissance Roofing for $9,265.03, closing out the courthouse slate roof project; total change orders ran to about $87,000 on an original contract just under $2.8 million.
The Muscatine County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved the final change order for the courthouse slate‑roof replacement project, moving the long-running job to completion.
Community Development Director Eric Furnace presented change order No. 8 with Renaissance Roofing for $9,265.03. Furnace said the work consolidated gutter‑framing and decking repairs discovered as the contractor exposed areas while replacing roof sections and that the cost used labor rates already established in the contract.
“This will be the final change order, and this pulls together a bunch of gutter framing and decking repairs that they were having to do … as they went,” Furnace said.
Furnace told the board the project began with a contract just under $2.8 million and that cumulative change orders totaled about $87,000 — roughly a 3 to 3.5 percent increase over the original price. He said the project took about 11 months instead of the originally projected seven to eight months and praised crews for completing work and removing scaffolding.
The board moved and seconded approval of the change order and approved it by voice vote.
Furnace also reported follow‑on work: county crews will complete landscaping and temporary sidewalk and parking‑lot repairs where panels or equipment had caused ruts or crushed sidewalk panels; he said contractors will cold‑patch sidewalk depressions to make pedestrian areas safe before heavy holiday use.
Furnace recommended using remaining contingency funds from the courthouse budget to proceed with planned Fourth Street and Walnut Street concrete replacement projects and to address some jail HVAC repairs. The board did not make any additional appropriation at the meeting; Furnace said he will return with bid documents for the concrete projects.
The change‑order approval formally closes the roofing contract and allows the county to finalize punch‑list items and move crews into landscaping and ancillary repairs.
