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Tuesday, 10 February 2009 |
By ANGELA WEAVER
Staff Writer
ST. MARYS — The St. Marys Board of Education held a work session Monday night to discuss a few construction projects developing in the district.
Board members selected alternate bids for the grades six-to-12 building, with the majority of the alternates being co-funded by the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission (OSFC), including a ceiling-mounted volleyball net, lock sets, an upgraded gymnasium floor, upgraded weight room flooring, a standing seam metal roof and a cupola.
When it comes to the cupola, St. Marys Business Manager Kurt Kuffner said there are two things the board needed to look at — the general trades cost and the electric cost to light the cupola. He said the roof type also made a difference.
“If we go with the cupola and the shingles, we have one guy,” Kuffner said. “If we go with the steel (roof) we have two different companies — one in charge of flashing and the other in mounting.”
Board members approved the metal roof because of the cost.
“(The metal roof) is significantly less than we wanted it to be, and it is co-funded,” Superintendent Mary Riepenhoff said.
The board members have yet to decide on the color of the roof, of which Riepenhoff depicted on a slideshow prepared by Fanning/Howey.
The OSFC also agreed to co-fund the electrical switch gear upgrade, which would allow the Auglaize County Department of Homeland Security to have an emergency generator in the building to run the electricity in the men’s and women’s restrooms in the dining commons, in the dining commons and in the kitchen.
Kuffner said the OSFC also agreed to co-fund the geothermal well field and the heat pump platform.
“And possibly an additional parking lot on the west side of the building and the deceleration lane on 66,” he said, adding that the OSFC hasn’t committed yet on those two projects and would wait until later in the project.
Kuffner said the OSFC agreed to fund approximately 61 percent of the $1.6 million project.
The OSFC said it would not co-fund three of the alternates — the Terrazzo flooring, additional classrooms and the auditorium upgrades.
Kuffner also told board members that they will not have a food services bid to award at Wednesday’s board of education meeting because the company left out a $10,000 contingency and five stainless steel carts. He also told board members that the board will have to go to the second bidder on the temperature controls because of the first low bidder’s mathematical error.
Board members also:
• Discussed the direction of the district offices — whether they should be left in the 1923 building, put in the District Service Center once it was renovated or moved to the new construction site.
“The design phase is almost done,” Riepenhoff said. “The original plan was this (the DSC renovations and office move in) was going to be done this June. We don’t have to move forward with it that fast.”
At Monday’s meeting, board members decided to table the renovations to the DSC and decided to move the district offices to the construction site.
“We will stop the DSC and try to get more information about the building out there,” Riepenhoff said.
The building at the site is a proposed Morton building that would house 5,000 square feet of office space and 3,000 square feet of maintenance. The only renovation that would take place at the DSC, which would then house the technology and transportation departments, would be to replace the roof.
• Discussed the Rider Rooters feasibility study about the costs of putting in locker rooms and restrooms.
To renovate the basement of the 1923 building into restrooms and locker rooms, it would cost approximately $500,000, according to the study. According to the study, renovating the Vo-Ag rooms would cost approximately $2 million and renovating McBroom would cost approximately $1.2 million.
Kuffner said the abatement and demolishment of the 1923 building was pushed back unofficially until Nov. 1, and said everything must be done by Jan. 27, 2011, except for seeding. He said the district’s commissioning agents from STAN and Associates, of Dayton, estimated the operating cost of keeping the building would be $130,000 a year.
After discussion, Riepenhoff said she would check with the construction company about grading the area behind the building and would talk to the city about options regarding building a structure at the site to be used for locker rooms and restrooms.
The St. Marys Board of Education will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the council chambers. |
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