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Board backs CTE center connector and middle‑school addition after competitive bids; safety cited as main reason
Summary
The Board of Supervisors on Monday endorsed the school board moving ahead with a construction contract for the new CTE center and middle‑school addition, including a $1.6–$1.7 million covered connector over the bus loop to keep students from crossing outside.
Supervisors voted to recommend that the school board approve and sign the construction contract for the Louisa County Career and Technical Education center and a middle‑school addition after a competitive bid opening.
Supervisor Williams reported that bids for the CTE center and middle‑school addition came in competitively and that the school board planned to act at its meeting the following evening. The board discussed an added connector — a covered, roughly two‑story structure spanning the bus loop to keep students from crossing outside — that increased the project scope and added approximately $1.6–$1.7 million to the combined project cost. The connector was presented to the board as a safety measure.
County staff and a supervisor with oversight said financing and the combined funding package for coupling the two projects appeared adequate to cover the added cost without exceeding the allocated budget. After discussion about cost and necessity, a motion to recommend the school board approve and sign the contract the next evening was moved, seconded and passed unanimously.
Supervisors said safety, not weather protection, was the principal reason for adding the connector: “The bigger concern wasn’t so much whether the big concern was the safety,” one supervisor said. The board’s action was advisory to the school board (which was to take the formal contract vote at its meeting).
