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Bullitt County school projects near substantial completion; board reviews change orders and soil stabilization costs
Summary
District staff reported substantial completion and a state certificate of occupancy for Bernheim and reviewed several Phase 2 athletics change orders — including a $22,000 brick credit and roughly $60,000 in subsurface rock remediation — and outlined lime/cement soil stabilization to keep turf installation on schedule.
A district facilities staff member told the Bullitt County Board of Education on Dec. 18 that several high-school construction projects are nearing completion and that a set of change orders for Phase 2 athletics will be on the board’s agenda.
The staff member said Bernheim Middle School and Bullitt East fine-arts areas are at substantial completion and have received the state’s final certificate of occupancy; staff plan to present formal substantial-completion certificates and closeout documentation to the board in January. "There is one change order on tonight's agenda for additional requests from the Bernheim team to add some more locker room benches as well as change out one door," the facilities staff member said.
District staff reviewed site and contractor work across multiple campuses. East Brook parking is scheduled for asphalt in the coming weeks, weather permitting, while Calhoun Construction has begun lime/cement soil stabilization on one baseball field to create a workable base for synthetic turf installation. The staff member said that method "does not void warranty" for turf and is a way to work in wet weather on clay soils.
Several change-order numbers and cost impacts were discussed. The district recorded a $22,000 credit tied to a different brick selection on a backstop wall; a roughly $30,000 item covers added riprap where trees were removed and a French drain at a tennis court; and a roughly $60,000 cost was attributed to subsurface rock and remediation beyond existing allowances, which the staff member said was verified by special inspectors and identified after proof-rolling.
Electrical and plumbing revisions were also listed as change-order items. The facilities update said scoreboard wiring required changes to address voltage drop due to long runs, and plumbing additions (a water fountain and a mop sink) were discovered on architectural drawings but omitted from plumbing bid documents and thus are being added now. Additional flat work, a pitching practice area and a batting cage were included at Bullitt Central.
On fencing, the staff member said gates added under a Moats cooperative purchase will improve parity between baseball and softball: 22-foot gates were added to softball for equity with baseball, and a Bullitt Central gate was revised from 12 to 20 feet. The update said the gates cost about $6,000 each versus a roughly $10,050 proposal price, producing a favorable value at current pricing.
To protect the turf-installation schedule, district staff said Moats needs fields turned over by Dec. 25 for an approximately eight-week installation window; soil mitigation using lime/cement — performed by Mount Carmel and reviewed by a third-party soils engineer, according to the update — is the planned mitigation to reach a February 1 target for field openings.
The facilities staff member framed these changes as schedule and quality measures: "It's an expensive mitigation, but it is the best way to mitigate soil in a wet condition," the staff member said. The presentation concluded with the facilities team inviting questions from the board.
