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District pitches $3 million 'warm, safe, dry' facilities package; board to consider phased bid packages
Summary
Consultants from ICS presented a prioritized facilities plan asking the board to authorize design and bidding for a $3 million package of imminent maintenance projects (HVAC units, pool dehumidifier, fire alarms, controls, chiller plant) and a separate $29,740 conceptual study for stadium design.
Consultants from ICS told the Lower Moreland school board on Jan. 7 that they had distilled a larger capital plan into a first tranche of "imminent" projects to match about $3 million in available capital funds.
John Young and Tim Geiter of ICS described a package approach that breaks the work into four bid packages: rooftop/air-side equipment (Pine Road rooftop unit and the middle school pool dehumidifier); fire alarm replacements (Murray Avenue and Pine Road); controls and network upgrades (Murray Avenue); and chiller-plant replacement (Murray Avenue). "We were charged with taking that holistic capital plan and really reducing it to the more imminent needs," John Young told the board, repeatedly using the consultants'…
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