District finance update: Lake Wylie project shortfall, Liberty Hill allowances and plan to seek impact-fee review with York County

District finance and construction staff presented an update on capital projects and funding options at the work session and outlined next steps on borrowing and a five-year impact-fee review with York County.

Kelly Clayton and other district staff summarized progress on multiple capital projects approved in 2022 and later. The district reported that the set of 2022 projects — a fitness center, track widening, resurfacing, new tennis courts, commons renovation and front entrance/traffic-loop work — remain within the $17 million budget approved in 2022, with only site and traffic-loop costs projected as outstanding.

The fine-arts addition for the ninth-grade campus was budgeted at $5,100,000 and staff said construction is about 75% complete; staff currently project this work to come in at or just under budget. Southern Builders was named in the presentation as the contractor on that project.

Lake Wylie High School: staff reported the largest concern is Lake Wylie High School's construction budget. The voters authorized $156 million for the high school; the project was bid and estimated elsewhere at roughly $172 million. District staff said about $148 million is currently encumbered across the site-work and building contracts (including a site-work contract with Hoopaw and a building contract with Contract Construction). With athletics and landscaping still to be bid, staff projected a roughly $5,000,000 shortfall on the overall Lake Wylie project if current estimates hold.

Liberty Hill Elementary: staff reported that original…