Posted 7:17 am Monday, February 09, 2009
Tyler ISD Trustees to Consider Setting School Construction Price
By MEGAN MIDDLETON
Staff Writer
The Tyler ISD school board will consider approving the Guaranteed Maximum Price, or GMP, for the construction of three new schools TISD is building as part of the $124.9 million bond program.
Staff Writer
The Tyler ISD school board will consider approving the Guaranteed Maximum Price, or GMP, for the construction of three new schools TISD is building as part of the $124.9 million bond program.
The board will consider this during a special meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Room B-1 of the TISD Administration Building, 1319 New Sunnybrook Drive.
The GMP amounts for replacement campuses at Clarkson, Orr and Woods elementary schools are not listed in the agenda information for the meeting. TISD Superintendent Dr. Randy Reid said they would be given to the board on Tuesday.
"We just took bids this week, and they're still scrubbing them down," Reid said Friday afternoon, speaking of the numbers.
Reid said while he didn't have precise numbers yet, "Our pricing was right in the range that we expected based on our projections. We feel good that with these first three, we're going to be able to deliver the product for the price that we said we were going to be able to deliver it for."
Establishing the Guaranteed Maximum Price, Reid said, "is the portion of the process that ensures, before we start construction, that we have the dollars allocated that will complete the project."
The GMP, he said, is the Guaranteed Maximum Price for the building "as we currently designed it."
He said once these are approved, it allows for the construction process to begin.
Voters approved the bond issue Nov. 4, authorizing replacement of Clarkston, Griffin, Jones, Orr and Woods elementary schools as well as the St. Louis School-Wayne D. Boshears Center for Exceptional Programs. Jones and the Boshears school will be constructed as one facility.
The district plans to bid the Jones/Boshears school and Griffin Elementary projects by the end of March, Reid said.
He said the district is still on target to open all of the schools in August 2010.
OTHER ITEMS
Also on the agenda for Tuesday's special meeting is the approval of the LAN infrastructure electronics, streaming video and communication cable infrastructure for Clarkston, Griffin, Jones/Boshears, Orr and Woods elementary schools.
There is also an item for approving a fiber optic wide area network lease.
The board will also consider voting to accept the resignation of Dr. Waymon Wesley, who was the coordinator of special services at TISD, and consider approving the dismissal of a federal lawsuit and grievance.
The board will also vote on the hiring of a construction manager. The construction manager will observe and monitor construction sites during the process of building the new schools in the 2008 bond program.
