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Board approves $830,346 change order for state mental health hospital project; staff says funding is SPARK, ARPA and state funds
Summary
The board approved change order No. 1 for $830,346 for architectural and engineering services on the new state mental health hospital project, which staff described as a roughly $85 million, 130,000‑square‑foot facility funded with SPARK grant dollars, ARPA funds and state general funds; staff said no county dollars are being used.
The Sedgwick County Board of Business Contracts approved change order No. 1 for architectural and engineering services on the county's state mental health hospital project in the amount of $830,346.
Assistant county manager Tanya Cole described the project as a new 130,000‑square‑foot mental health hospital with an $85,000,000 construction budget. Cole said the project is a collaboration with the state and that funding sources are SPARK grant dollars, ARPA funds and state general funds — "so no county dollars are being used for this," she said. Cole characterized the work as on a tight timeline: "Very tight timeline to do this. I think we started mid February and we had to finish mid October. We're building a 130,000 square foot building...It's a new build $85,000,000 project."
Cole told the board the project design and scope changed during delivery, including an increase in beds from an earlier 52‑bed plan to roughly 102 beds, additional furniture, fixtures and equipment responsibilities being assigned to the contractor, and other scope adjustments that led to additional staffing needs and change‑order costs. Board members confirmed change orders of this scale are not unusual on large, complex construction projects; the motion to approve change order No. 1 carried on a unanimous voice vote.
