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Board approves multiple capital and procurement contracts, including Grant Middle School path and Grama roof replacement
Summary
The Marion City Schools Board approved a package of facilities and procurement contracts March 17, including an ADA-accessible path at Grant Middle School, masonry repairs at Harding High School, a stadium coating job, roof work and a Grama roof replacement option.
The Marion City Schools Board approved a package of construction and procurement contracts March 17 covering athletic and building work across the district and a switch in custodial-supply vendor.
Jake (district buildings and grounds director) told the board the district will contract with Vasco Asphalt Company to build a walking path from the practice field to Grant Middle School's baseball area and to connect to the football access, with a planned substantial completion date of Aug. 1 to ensure the work finishes this year. Vasco highlighted usual contractor responsibilities including extra soil work and ADA compliance; the board emphasized ADA accessibility for that path.
Other approved facilities work includes masonry repairs and rebuild of seating/half walls at Harding High School (QMC), roof ladders to improve maintenance staff access between roof levels, and a stadium concrete coating job (an epoxy-style surface similar to prior work) planned for summer. For Grama's roof the district received two bids: a coating (10-year warranty) and full replacement (20-year warranty). The replacement bid came back at about $560,000 compared with the $500,000 budget; the superintendent recommended replacement citing a 20-year warranty and an estimated $250,000 savings over 10 years compared with coating.
The board also approved a contract to purchase custodial supplies from Cecil Distributing (8i). Staff noted the contract form mistakenly named another district ("Marion Local School District") and said the vendor/contract will be corrected before execution; the new vendor would save the district about 15% compared with the previous vendor.
All contracts were approved in a bundled vote (items 9a through 9e and 8i). The motion passed on a unanimous roll call. The board asked staff to ensure contract language and timelines (substantial completion date and warranty terms) are enforced by contract language prepared by the district's attorneys.
