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Board approves Croft & Associates for Windsor Forest Elementary replacement design; members press for project manager timeline

Savannah‑Chatham County Board of Public Education · January 15, 2026

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Summary

Board approved design services for a replacement Windsor Forest Elementary (initial state cost limit $36 million) with a professional fee of $2,242,250 plus $20,000 reimbursables. Members asked why the project manager RFP is not yet complete and were told delaying the design could push the project schedule by about a year.

The board approved a design contract with Croft & Associates Inc. for the replacement of Windsor Forest Elementary and discussed the project schedule and procurement for a project manager.

The agenda listed an initial state cost limitation for the Windsor Forest replacement of $36,000,000. Staff said the design professional fee is $2,242,250 with a $20,000 reimbursable expense for a total contract amount of $2,262,250; staff recommended approval to proceed so the project could move into programming, schematics and design development. Board members pressed staff on whether the project manager RFP had been released and whether moving forward without the third‑party program manager would create coordination problems.

One board member (Speaker 17) noted the district intended to put most future E‑5 projects out to competitive bid for design but said early projects would be initiated using on‑call services: "the goal and intent is to put out for bid the majority of future E‑5 projects... this is just 1 of the early ones," Speaker 17 said. Staff (Speaker 7 and Speaker 21) described a dual path: finalize the RFP for a program manager while starting a small set of priority E‑5 projects to avoid added delay. Drevon Jones (Speaker 21) summarized the practical first step: bring the architect on board to establish programming so schematic design and subsequent construction steps can follow. Staff warned that delaying the architect could add roughly a year to the project schedule.

The board approved the design contract and asked that staff return with timelines for the project manager procurement and overall project schedule.