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Committee reviews $323,068.90 change order to restore power at Lansing Correctional Facility; no quorum to vote
Summary
Officials briefed the Joint Committee on State Building Construction on a $323,068.90 change order to reroute electrical service to a 25,000-square-foot industrial building at Lansing Correctional Facility. Committee members were consulted but did not take a formal vote because there was no quorum.
At a meeting of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction, staff presented a change order to reroute electrical service to the industrial building at Lansing Correctional Facility and described related schedule and funding impacts.
Barbara Schling, Deputy Director for Design, Construction and Compliance for the Office of Facilities and Property Management (OFPM), said the change order is "to correct and get power to the industries industrial building at Lansing Correctional Facility." She described the building as a 25,000-square-foot, one-story production facility with offices, support spaces and restrooms.
Schling told the committee the original contract value was $3,639,000 and the additional work to reach active electrical service will cost $323,068.90. She said funding for the change order comes from Correctional Industries and that the work is "all specifically for electric modifications." Schling said the change adds 140 days to the project schedule.
Schling also said the $323,068.90 change order is "in addition to the already approved change orders of a hundred 20 6 thousand" and stated the new contract total is $4,088,970.35.
The committee did not take a formal vote on the change order. The committee chair said, "at this point, we don't have a quorum. We're not making a motion or anything like that, but we have been consulted we've been advised and I would say it would be approved from the committee." The meeting record shows no mover, seconder or roll-call tally for the item.
Committee members used the session to raise a separate facilities concern at Hutch Correctional Facility. The chair asked what would be required to "start updating and replacing plumbing" at Hutch, and Schling said funding for upgrades "would have to be an appropriation to fund that." James Skidmore, director of capital improvements for the Kansas Department of Corrections, said Hutch is "putting together quotes right now for their plumbing needs" and that the department has "a current project replacing hot water lines that's getting ready to go out for bid." Skidmore added the department is "getting quotes to redo all the plumbing in the cell[s]."
No formal direction or vote on Hutch plumbing work was recorded; staff said they are assembling cost estimates for capital improvement plans and will pursue available funding.
The meeting closed without a formal committee vote on the Lansing change order because a quorum was not present. The presentation included the contract figures, the stated funding source and the additional schedule days; the committee record indicates staff will continue work on cost estimates for Hutch and proceed with the electrical modifications at Lansing per the change-order scope described by OFPM staff.
