Board approves $599,000 turbine unit replacement and turf project with contingency funds

The Forest Hills Board approved facilities work as part of its consent agenda, including a $599,000 public-bid contract with Triton Services to replace a turbine monitoring air handling unit and a cooperative contract with Moats Turf Services to replace turf, add a shock pad, and upgrade related site work.

Operations staff explained the turbine unit contract resulted from a public bid opening and that Triton Services was the lowest responsible bidder at $599,000. The turf project was described as a full stadium replacement that requires both design and construction contingencies; the presenter cited around $250,000 in contingency lines to address unknowns such as retention, drainage, or subsurface issues. Operations said the goal is not to spend contingency funds and that final costs are expected to be closer to $1.5 million than $1.7 million.

Board members asked clarifying questions about scope (regrading, new base and drainage at Nagle versus carpet replacement at Anderson) and about multi-use field striping for soccer and football. The operations presenter described installation steps (removing existing surface, adding shock pad, laying turf, and installing track surface where applicable).

Both items were approved in the consent agenda vote. The operations presenter requested board approval of agenda items 9.1 through 9.3 as part of the consent agenda.

What’s next: staff indicated work will proceed in late spring/early summer with a schedule to avoid term-time occupancy in many buildings; no final construction schedule or funding breakdown beyond the cited contingency amounts was provided in the meeting.