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Putnam County School Board approves change orders for Crescent City Pre‑K; sidewalks deferred
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Summary
The Putnam County School Board on March 24 unanimously approved two change orders for the Crescent City Pre‑K project: a paving change order approved without sidewalks and an emergency fire‑marshal change order requiring construction adjustments. Exact cost figures were not specified in the transcript.
The Putnam County School Board on March 24 approved two change orders affecting the Crescent City Pre‑K elementary project, voting separately to exclude sidewalks from a paving change order and to accept an emergency set of corrections the state fire marshal required.
The board voted unanimously to approve change order number 9 for paving work on the Crescent City project “without the sidewalks,” after staff explained state rules and funding timing mean sidewalks must be installed once the school is active. Miss Pickens moved the motion; the board chair called the voice vote and the motion carried unanimously (vote counts were not specified in the transcript).
During an emergency session the board also approved change order number 10, brought forward after the state fire marshal’s site walk identified items that need fixing near the end of construction. James Marini of Ajax, the construction representative, said the marshal’s review raised issues that exceed the original drawings: “The fire marshal came through, and... these are things the fire marshal brought up that need to be done. Firewalls need to be extended. Valves out by the water tank that needed to be reversed,” he said. Marini told the board the items were identified late in the process and that the work was “above and beyond what was specked in the drawings.”
A project team member identified in the transcript as Manny described how the contractor pushed back on some initial requests and reached a compromise that reduced cost: “The team pushed back on his first requests, which were not really required... and so it wound up with this compromise and a lower cost,” Manny said. The transcript includes a numeric phrase when Marini discussed cost (“that’s where that 87 1 98 comes from”), but that figure is unclear in the record; no definitive dollar amount for the change orders was specified in the meeting transcript.
Board members asked procedural questions about timing and liability related to code compliance, and staff told the board there would be no time extension associated with the marshal‑required work because roadway work will be done concurrently. The chair confirmed the emergency motion and the board voted to approve the change order unanimously (counts not specified).
The board returned to regular session after the emergency item. The meeting record does not list a final contractor cost total in the transcript; the board scheduled no additional public vote on these items in the meeting record and adjourned after routine reports.
