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Council closes Old Fort Park tennis project with small credit; transcript shows likely numeric error
Summary
Council approved change order No. 3 crediting unused allowance funds and closing the Old Fort Park tennis/pickleball project; transcript includes an implausible final project cost that appears to be a transcription error and is corrected in this report.
The Murfreesboro City Council approved Change Order No. 3 for the Old Fort Park tennis‑court renovations, which replaced eight tennis courts with six tennis courts, six pickleball courts and related amenities. The change order credits the city for unused allowance funds related to undercutting and asphalt replacement and reduces the contract sum.
Staff presented the change order as a credit of $9,887 to the original contract with Steelhead Building Group, which had an original contract amount of $1,253,260. Using those figures, the corrected final contract sum is $1,243,373 (that is, $1,253,260 minus $9,887). The meeting transcript contains an implausible numeric string reported by the presenter — “The final project cost are $1,000,002,443,373 dollars” — which is inconsistent with the presented original contract and the stated credit. The corrected final cost stated above is the arithmetical result of the numbers presented by staff.
Council voted to approve the change order and authorized project closeout. Staff will complete the necessary closeout paperwork.
