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Commissioners approve budget amendment after Lexington Middle School renovation uncovers additional costs
Summary
Contractor and county staff outlined about $562,000 in change-order requests for Lexington Middle School — asbestos abatement, IT and HVAC work and temporary cooling — and commissioners approved a budget amendment using restricted sales-tax dollars to cover the extra cost.
Davidson County commissioners voted May 27 to approve a budget amendment to cover additional costs on the Lexington Middle School renovation after staff described multiple unplanned expenses and change-order requests.
County project manager Danny Norman told the board that the renovation — scheduled to substantially finish in August — uncovered several unanticipated items that increased the project’s cost: newly discovered asbestos in the school library and administration areas that required abatement, additional communications and IT infrastructure work, rental of temporary HVAC units to cool classrooms during testing, and four HVAC units that were not originally replaced but later determined to need full replacement.
Norman presented line items discussed at the meeting: an asbestos…
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