CSISD to seek guaranteed maximum prices for three high‑school projects; construction laydown will displace student parking and shift bus routes

District staff presented a multi‑school construction plan at the College Station ISD workshop on March 18 that will push several bond projects into active construction, start rooftop repairs and temporarily reconfigure parking and bus routes around A&M Consolidated High School, College Station High School and Rock Prairie.

The presenter said trustees would be asked to approve guaranteed maximum prices (GMPs) at the board meeting that night for the A&M Consolidated High School expansion and for College Station High School and Rock Prairie. The district plans to mobilize immediately on the projects if the GMPs are approved.

At A&M Consolidated High School, the district plans to use the existing bus‑lane/parking area as a contractor laydown yard, temporarily occupying 96 student parking spaces and 47 staff parking spaces (district clarified the 47 are spaces, not necessarily all daily occupied). To reduce disruption the district has negotiated a memorandum of understanding to lease the back half of the Grace Bible (Southwood) parking lot for $1 and has striped extra spaces; staff said that lot offers about 85 spaces. The district plans to require permits and register vehicles that use the leased lot and to deploy a parking attendant to monitor the leased area.

The presenter described other traffic and safety mitigations: relocating the bus loop to the front of A&M Consolidated to use an existing front drop‑off area used by special‑education buses, building safety fencing around construction zones, installing partition walls inside buildings after hours to separate work crews from students, and staging much of the heavy work after school or on weekends. Safety fencing will be interlocked and access limited to contractors and the on‑site superintendent; emergency egress points would be maintained.

The presenter said Durotech would begin moving safety fencing into the laydown yard on Saturday and install a mobile trailer the following Tuesday; demolition and bus‑lane site work would begin the week after. The district also plans roof replacement work and other projects that will share laydown yards and staff resources. The presenter said the reason to start now instead of waiting for summer was to avoid inflationary increases in costs and to coordinate roofing and interior remodels so completed work can come together faster; the district aims for an aggressive completion timeline and said the goal is to finish the A&M Consolidated expansion in summer 2026 and to compress College Station High School’s work from a two‑year timetable to about 18 months with an October 2026 target.

When asked why the laydown yard could not be placed on grass or tennis courts, staff said the proximity and existing circulation made the selected lot the safest option; contractors moving heavy steel and equipment across busy drop‑off lanes was judged more hazardous than temporarily displacing parking. The presenter added the district had reduced the originally requested yard footprint where practicable and had included several alternates in the construction bids, including locker removal at A&M Consolidated requested by campus leadership.

Board members and parents raised concerns about student access to parking, enforcement of no‑parking signs on nearby streets and whether the leased church lot would be sufficient; the presenter said the district would monitor parking patterns daily, be visibly present, and pivot as necessary.

The district did not record a formal board vote on the GMPs during the workshop. Trustees were told the GMP approvals were scheduled for the board meeting later that evening and that mobilization would follow board action.