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Commissioners approve $287,404 credit change order for Hamblen County Justice Center
Summary
Commissioners accepted change order No. 26 for the Hamblen County Justice Center project, presented as a package of contractor credits and value-engineering savings that presenter said reduce costs to the county by $287,404 and leave the contractor contract at about $94.96 million.
Commissioners on the Justice Center/Public Safety committee voted to accept change order No. 26 for the Hamblen County Justice Center project, a package the county’s project manager said results in a $287,404 credit to the county.
"The total change order is $287,404 as a credit to the County," Jaren Delwater, Burwell project manager, told the committee during a presentation on the project’s remaining closeout items. Delwater walked commissioners through credits for moisture mitigation ($119,221), deductive value-engineering changes and credits for door and finish-work that the county elected to handle directly.
The presenter also provided updated contract accounting: the original contract value was $92,208,000, and the current contractor contract value through change order 26 stands at $94,964,179, reflecting cumulative change orders of roughly $2.76 million. Delwater said some owner-driven items and unforeseen underground mitigation accounted for part of that total.
Commissioners questioned the allocation of specific credits, including a roughly $39,951 charge for overhead doors in the sally port. Delwater said the architect (Moseley) agreed to cover the full cost of that overhead-door work against the architect’s contract so the net liability to the county would be mitigated across contracts. He also said negotiations with the prime contractor (referred to in the presentation as Blaine/Blank Construction in different places in the transcript) remained ongoing but that the architect had agreed to roughly $206,840 in credits.
After questions, the committee moved and seconded the motion to accept change order No. 26; the chair called for the vote and the motion carried. Staff committed to provide commissioners copies of the detailed deduction lists and the settlement paperwork with the architect and contractor as they finalize those agreements.
What’s next: staff said they expect to finalize outstanding contractor settlement documents before the next full commission meeting and will circulate the detailed change-order backup to commissioners via email or hard copy.
