Livingston Parish board approves school change orders, insurance renewals, personnel contracts and property reversion

At a September 2025 meeting, the Livingston Parish School Board approved change orders for two school construction projects, accepted a budget committee report recommending insurance renewals, approved a set of performance-based employee contracts and agreed to a reversion of donated land to the original donors.

The board voted to approve change order No. 2 for the South Fork Junior High School project after presentation by Jim Zeiler of Zeiler Architects. Zeiler told the board the change order “consists of adding an electric panel for the HVAC system and that total is $13,878.” The board approved the change order by voice vote; a board member later noted the design team had identified an omission and said the firm would assume an additional $32,872 of costs tied to that mistake.

Jeff LaRosa of Coleman Partners Architects presented change order No. 2 for Denham Springs High School’s new field house, describing a package of design and construction revisions. LaRosa said the change order amount is $170,006.21 with no extension to the project schedule and listed items added or changed, including responses to fire marshal and permit-office comments, audio-visual and electrical infrastructure work, added CMU block at restroom chase walls, storefront window changes, brick finish changes, epoxy floor finish, a training room and a new coaches suite, revised ceiling heights, concrete slurry mix and press box foundations and the deletion of visual display boards. LaRosa stated the project’s total sum, as presented, would be approximately $6,000,002.33. The board approved that…