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Board approves up to $400,000 transfer to finish Chatham Park renovations
Summary
The Haverford Township School District board voted to reallocate up to $400,000 from the Coopertown renovation project to the Chatham Park renovation to cover unforeseen site and construction costs and to keep the building ready for the Sept. 2 school start.
The Haverford Township School District Board of School Directors voted Aug. 21 to approve reallocating up to $400,000 from the Coopertown renovation project to the Chatham Park renovation project to cover unanticipated construction costs and schedule pressures.
Board members said the increase follows more detailed contractor estimates and preliminary inspections completed since an earlier work-session discussion. District staff and the contractor, CV Developers, said the extra funding covers items that surfaced late in the summer work, including soft soils, additional parking-lot repairs, time-and-material ticket work to fix existing conditions, and overtime to accelerate completion so students can occupy the building on the first day of school.
Ken Matthews, representing CV Developers, told the board that the cumulative effect of late-discovered work and late contractor change submissions raised the estimate, and that the request is intended as a cushion to avoid returning to the board for smaller increases. Matthews said the project team expects the final overage to be nearer $300,000 and hopes the total will stay at or below $350,000.
District staff noted the Chatham Park and Coopertown projects are part of the same capital program. Staff said work has progressed rapidly in recent days, including paving, and that site clean-up (removal/spreading of stockpiled soil) is expected to begin the following week. The district said the school will be ready for students on Sept. 2, though the gym floor will be delayed about a month and the kitchen may require short-term contingency arrangements during the first week or two.
Officials placed the increase in project context: the district’s hard-cost budget for the larger program is about $32,000,000, so the request represents a little more than 1% of that budget, according to district comments during the meeting.
The motion to reallocate up to $400,000 was moved and seconded during the Aug. 21 action meeting and passed without recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript.
