The
EMES Oversight Committee + Facilities Committee UPDATE
The EMES Oversight
Committee has been working since last November in getting us to the point to
start construction. A lot has happened in the last few
months to make sure we can break ground as soon as possible. We have made some compromises along the
way to make sure we stay within budget. It is not easy but we are making sure that we respond
to the school needs at the same time we make sure we stay on budget. We will have bleachers in the gym
but not in the location we originally wanted them to be. The original idea of moving the
bathroom and punching a hole through a structural wall proved too costly. We have added benches for the teams, a
safe space to keep score and bleachers on the stage instead. This was the best solution for our
money. The community approved a
bond for $8.17M and we can’t go over this amount, we are not getting any state
money either. Bids for the
Permanent Financing for the bond will be opened on June 17th.
TruexCullins Architects
sent out the bid set of drawings to all six of our pre-qualified contractors,
and on June 11th we opened five bids! A great job was done by all specially the work
that went into the set of drawings by the architects and their
subcontractors. Thank you for
their hard work!
The oversight committee
recommended to the Board to accept the bid from the lowest bidder:
Wright &Morrissey $ 5,522,500.00
We had originally in our
budget 6.4M for construction, on our next meeting we will be looking at the
list of priorities. The first step
will be to add some of the money to our owner project contingency fund to
increase it from $420,000.00 to $600,000.00
On Wednesday, June 12, at
6:00pm the School Board had a special meeting to award the contract to the
General Contractor. At this
meeting we heard a lot of the comments and concerns of a small group of our community. After that meeting it was clear that we
needed to do a better job providing more information to the community.
First the School Board
has asked the Superintendent to give us a full report on the temporary
classroom removal process. As soon
as this is available we will post it.
Second we will be posting
after each of our oversight committee meetings progress reports on Front Porch
Forum and we will post updates and drawings at the Town Clerks office to make
sure everybody has access to the information.
Third we will continue to post in the school
website www.emontpelierschool.org
click on the link to the Facilities Committee or our Blog: http://emesfacilities.blogspot.com/
for updated plans.
If you have any questions, please email Alicia
Lyford alyford@u32.org or Flor DiazSmith diazsmith.flor@gmail.com
It takes a Village to raise a child
and light the fire, thank you for your support!
