Posted 1:22 am Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Board To Examine Maximum Price For New Schools
By MEGAN MIDDLETON
Staff Writer
The Tyler ISD school board will consider approving the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) for the construction of three new schools the district is building as part of its $124.9 million bond program.
Staff Writer
The Tyler ISD school board will consider approving the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) for the construction of three new schools the district is building as part of its $124.9 million bond program.
The board will consider the measure during a special meeting at 3 p.m. today in Room B-1 of the TISD Administration Building, 1319 New Sunnybrook Drive.
The GMP for replacement campuses at Clarkson, Orr and Woods elementary schools is not listed in the agenda information for the meeting. TISD Superintendent Dr. Randy Reid said they would be given to the board today.
"We just took bids this week, and they're still scrubbing them down," Reid said Friday.
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 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 GMP, 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 highest price for the building "as we currently designed it."
He said approving the GMP 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 still is on target to open all of the schools in August 2010.
OTHER ITEMS
The LAN infrastructure electronics, streaming video and communication cable infrastructure for Clarkston, Griffin, Jones/Boshears, Orr and Woods elementary schools also are on the agenda.
There also is an item for approving a fiber optic wide area network lease.
The board also will consider accepting the resignation of Dr. Waymon Wesley, who was the coordinator of special services at TISD, and approving the dismissal of a federal lawsuit and grievance.
The board also will vote on hiring 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.
