Daggett County Municipal Building Authority approves $69,184.83 in change orders, OKs $540,549.32 disbursement

The Daggett County Municipal Building Authority on April 14 approved three change orders totaling $69,184.83 and signed off on routine financial reports, including a disbursement summary of $540,549.32.

Jesse, the project manager for the Daggett County Health Business and Community Center, walked the board through change order 12, which totals $46,422.83 and consists of three project change orders (PCOs). "So change order 12 encompasses, 3 separate PCOs," Jesse said, explaining that PCO 23 adds a restricted keyway for security ($6,128.30), PCO 24 covers changes including three bollards and converting exterior awnings to noncombustible materials ($31,428.41), and PCO 25 addresses tariffs and controller costs for the elevator ($8,866.12). Jesse told the board the work "fits within our current construction contingency from the funding that we've received from CIB," and that no additional county funding was required to approve the change order.

The board also approved a $3,500 change order to Alders for additional structural support needed to install an operable wall in the community room. Jesse said the installation had been prepaid by a partner grant but a field change required extra all-thread cross brackets and labor. "So there's a $3,500 cost for additional all thread cross brackets and the labor to install them," Jesse said.

For the Dutch John culinary water membrane filtration plant, county staff member Trevor described a $19,262 change order with Westech to add programming and controls modifications after the startup run revealed missing PLC tags and other automation needs. "We found that we were missing quite a few information tags in our PLC," Trevor said, adding that the work requires adding two analog cards and related programming. He estimated the change would run roughly $15,000 over a particular line-item, but a county staffer confirmed the extra cost can be absorbed by underruns elsewhere in the project budget: "That 15,000 will be able to be covered within the scope within the cost of the budget," the staff member said.

Each of the three change orders was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. Commissioners also approved routine administrative items at the start of the meeting: minutes from the April 7, 2026 MBA meeting, acknowledgement of the cash summary and accounts receivable report as of April 9, 2026, approval of the open invoice register (04/10/2026) in the amount of $4,268.81, and the disbursement summary for 04/03–04/10/2026 totaling $540,549.32.

Chair remarks and multiple board members praised Sunrise Engineering and county staff for budget oversight and progress on the projects. The chair adjourned the meeting at 10:02 a.m.