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Architects outline Phase 1 scope; board awards Phase 1 bids after favorable results
Summary
Architects presented Phase 1 work — tennis courts, a baseball field and dugouts, UPK playgrounds, bathroom and boiler renovations, and select masonry repair — and the board voted to award Phase 1 bids after bids came in roughly $400,000 under budget.
Architects and district staff presented a high-level scope of Phase 1 of the district’s capital project and showed renderings of site and building improvements. For the high school, the Phase 1 base scope includes resurfacing five tennis courts, renovating the baseball field and dugouts, and interior work such as bathrooms adjacent to the auditorium; phase-2 work was previewed but remains in design.
Christa, a project manager on the design team, summarized site work and alternates: “For phase 1, for the high school, we are doing 5 of your tennis courts, and we'll have a little bit of a rendering for that. We're redoing your baseball field and dugouts included in that,” and explained several playground alternates were not accepted in the base bid.
The presentation described planned work at Tecumseh (UPK playground, parent drop-off reconfiguration, bus-loop and parking updates), Jamesville (UPK playground, memorial platform and more costly interior toilet-room renovations), Moses DeWitt (playground and HVAC/office upgrades), and districtwide boiler and unit-ventilator replacements for older wings. Staff noted some alternates were designed so they could be added later if funding allows.
When bids were opened, staff told the board that phase-1 bids were approximately $400,000 below budget estimates, improving the district’s financial outlook for phase 2. The board subsequently voted to award the 2024 Phase 1 bids as presented.
Why it matters: The awarded Phase 1 work will alter athletic and play surfaces, upgrade safety-adjacent interiors and mechanical systems, and begin multi-year construction that staff said will be staged to limit disruption.
