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Board approves final payment for Chester Willows sports lighting; architect contract presented for locker rooms and restrooms
Summary
Supervisors approved a $15,260 final invoice to complete sports lighting at Chester Willows Field and heard a proposal for a $40,000 architecture contract to design restroom and locker-room improvements.
Joey Furr, a landscape architect who worked on Chester Willows Field, told the board the contractor’s final invoice for the sports-lighting installation is $15,260 and recommended the payment to close the project.
After brief verification on-site and confirmation that lights that were previously off had been switched on, a motion to approve the final invoice passed during the meeting.
Furr also presented a separate standard AIA contract proposal for professional services to design restroom work and renovations/additions to the facility’s locker rooms and façade. The contract covers the two projects under a single contract but separates them into two construction bid packages—phase 1 for toilet rooms and phase 2 for locker room and façade work. The architect stated he capped his fee at $40,000 (split $20,000 per phase) to remain within an 8% fee cap tied to the loan guidelines for the project.
Board members asked clarifying questions about whether the county needed to bid architecture services. County counsel responded that architecture services do not require competitive bidding under the rules the attorney cited. The transcript records discussion of the contract text and an earlier draft presentation; a formal roll-call vote to execute the AIA contract is not clearly recorded in the transcript excerpt.
Why it matters: The sports-lighting payment closes an ongoing recreation capital project and the proposed architectural contract would advance design and bid-ready documents for safety- and accessibility-related facility improvements.
