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Conference committee backs House language setting $1.25 million threshold for pre‑hiring owner's project manager
Summary
A legislative committee of conference agreed to adopt the House‑amended version of Senate Bill 209, retaining local control over when districts must hire an owner's project manager and raising the project threshold to $1.25 million; members debated timing, duplication of roles and reimbursement rules.
The committee of conference agreed to the House‑amended version of Senate Bill 209, keeping a local decision rule that an owner's project manager need not be hired before a school district submits its building‑aid application and setting the project threshold at $1.25 million for mandatory earlier hiring.
The decision matters because it determines when districts may seek reimbursement for an owner's project manager from state school‑building aid and whether districts must hire that manager before submitting a site design plan to the Department of Education and the School Building Authority.
Chairman Ladd, who identified himself as the education committee chair, summarized the House position: the bill's intent is to fund an owner's project manager (sometimes called the clerk of the works) out…
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