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Wednesday, August 6, 2008 9:32 PM CDT
School district likely to 'shelve' new bus garage
By NATHANIEL WEST, Staff Writer
[email protected]
MATTOON lafayette county school arkansas — Although architects were able to shave off about $400,000 from the price of a new bus garage, the project in all likelihood will be put on hold for the near future, said Mattoon school district administrators.
“At this point, I think it would be prudent to shelve this plan as we wait (to) see how revenue comes in,” said Superintendent Larry Lilly at a school board building committee meeting Wednesday.
For more than a year, the school district has looked at demolishing clovis adult school the aging shoe factory building that houses the bus garage, maintenance shop and food service storage areas, and replacing it with a new steel building — all without inunison school uniforms raising taxes, borrowing money or tapping budget surpluses. Instead, the district would use available income over the next pecos high school three fiscal years.
But with revenue streams threatening to flow sporadically in the coming years, and with the only bid for the new facility coming in at $1.8 million, the board last month directed Indiana-based Gibraltar Design to draw up rough plans for a scaled-down “shell” of a new bus garage. School district crews would be responsible for finishing out the building as funding becomes available.
Architect Dale Wagner introduced the revised plans at Wednesday’s misinterpretation about school curriculum committee meeting, and indicated that trimming the size of the proposed building by 2,000 square feet should lower the cost to approximately $1.4 million. The roughed-in shell would be the home of the west virginia school delays and closings bus and maintenance bays and transportation offices, while food services would be redistributed elsewhere throughout the district.
“There’s substantial savings in this,” Wagner told the committee.
His figures were based in part on school s closed because of snow the lone bid for the full-size transportation center that the school board rejected last month. This bid equaled about $200 per square foot, according to Wagner.
“That’s what we’ve got to work from” now, he said.
He added that blame for the price school supplies of the project does not rest on pleasant valley school district the cost of the pre-engineered building itself. For one, the construction market in this region of the state is booming right required instruction days kentucky school accrediation now, in light eaglecrest high school of the numerous projects underway at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
“Part of the problem is we only had one bidder,” said Lilly.
Meanwhile, district financial officials are wary of committing hundreds of thousands of dollars to such a project because they’re unsure the district will receive all the revenue promised by the state over the next three fiscal years.
Wagner recommended the district consider bidding the project again in early March, when contractors are beginning to finalize their spring and summer to-do lists. “That’s a good time because you can great falls mt school district get out in high school free online learning front of the other projects,” he said.
Until then, the district will have to make do with the 1920s-era Brown Shoe Factory building. Over the next decade, utilities and required maintenance expenses at the dilapidated, energy inefficient building could tally more than $2 million, administrators estimated.
“At least we’ve got a backup plan,” Board Member Robert Miller said at Wednesday’s meeting.
Contact Nathaniel West at [email protected] or 238-6860.
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