Board reviews campus construction, low bus‑barn bid and proposed additions for playgrounds and athletics

Staff member (S1) and presenter (S2) updated the board on the districtconstruction portfolio and procurement status. S2 said the elementary playground expansion would raise and level a sliver of campus to create an additional flat play area, add another playground structure and — if the board approves adding restrooms now — increase the project from about $1.7 million to roughly $1.95 million. "If we add the restrooms to the gym, it'd be about 1.95" S2 said, noting the restroom add was estimated at about $200,000.

S2 described scope for the athletic complex: enlarging a visitor locker room to accommodate a visiting football team, adding coaches offices and a covered canopy outside the concession area to create seating and grilling space. S2 gave a preliminary cost range of roughly $750,000 to $900,000 to add these features into the indoor athletics scope and asked the board if they wanted Lascaux to provide a firm price.

On procurement, S2 reported the storage building and adjacent asphalt parking were budgeted at $1,750,000 with a construction estimate near $1,378,000 last year. "The bid from Lascaux...came in at 1.3796," S2 said, which is about $17,000 over the original estimate; S2 recommended accepting the bid with a reduced contingency to keep the project near the $1.74 million budget.

S2 also reported the bus‑barn project came in substantially under estimate: an estimated $6.7 million construction cost and a Lascaux bid of about $5.8 million. Because that project includes significant metal‑building work, S2 proposed adding a temporary oil‑and‑gas CTE lab (an 800‑sq‑ft classroom and 1,200‑sq‑ft lab) to the bus‑barn contract to enable the program to begin by June. "They thought that they could get it done for that 225,000 budget," S2 said; the board discussed short‑term site shuffling for buses and using adjacent lots as temporary storage.

Construction manager S6 gave progress updates on specific sites: partial slab pours scheduled for baseball areas, press‑box framing arriving, interior elementary framing at roughly 99% complete, and ongoing supply delays for vestibule glass that are delaying finishing work. S6 warned that glass suppliers remain constrained and recommended seeking alternate vendors if timelines slip.

No formal vote on accepting specific contracts is recorded in the transcript segments provided; the agenda included a new‑business item to approve Lascaux as general contractor for the bus barn/storage facility and to authorize negotiation of architectural services for the CTE extension, which S4 introduced for board consideration.