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Manhattan-Ogden district outlines facilities work, seeks bids to outsource grounds maintenance
Summary
District staff reviewed recent capital projects and told the board it will take seven bid packages to outsource grounds maintenance as a one-year pilot; sinkhole repairs and an auditorium delay were also discussed.
The Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Board of Education received the district's annual facilities and capital outlay report and heard plans to pilot outsourced grounds maintenance across seven bid packages.
Assistant Superintendent Downes told the board the district has divided properties into seven packages "hoping that it allows for local businesses to be able to bid for 4 different properties" and said bids will be accepted through Jan. 7 with Facilities & Growth review and a planned board consideration on Jan. 22. "It's gonna be a 1 year bid, just so we can see how it all flushes out," he said.
Facilities director Matt summarized completed and ongoing projects, including new roofs, concrete parking and sidewalks, playground surface replacements, rooftop HVAC work and makerspace construction at the high school. He told the board his team supports roughly 1.6 million square feet of district property and said the facilities crew is about 15 people.
Board members pressed staff on immediate repair needs after staff reported sinkholes in east parking lots. Administrators said sinkhole repairs will come as a change-order capital repair separate from the bond project because the work was not part of the bond scope. "Part of the change order contract, but not necessarily tied to the bond project," a facilities presenter said.
The board was also told vendor schedules have delayed completion of the auditorium project into March; a February open house is still planned though parts of the space may not be fully finished. Members discussed using capital-outlay and bond funds only for their committed purposes and emphasized the district's audit and reporting obligations for publicly voted bond dollars.
The meeting packet noted donations and smaller capital items in the consent agenda, but no separate formal vote on facilities matters was recorded at this meeting. The board will consider the grounds bid results at its Jan. 22 meeting.
