Phase three of the Taylor Independent School District bond has a new price tag.
During the board meeting Monday, Dec. 11, trustees heard and approved the guaranteed maximum price for the construction projects within the final stage of the bond, which was passed May 2022.
After Stantec received drawings for bids over the past month, the base bid total for phase three of the bond is $19,802,715.
“This is phase three, which would start work in early January if you guys approve it tonight,” said Mark Brooks, senior project manager at Project Control. “It includes renovations to four or five campuses here.”
The biggest monetary item belongs to Taylor Middle School, which is getting a new administration area with security improvements and major maintenance across the school. TMS projects have a maximum price of $7,167,710.
T.H. Johnson Elementary School totals $4,264,268 for this stage of the bond. Planned improvements include a relocation of the administration area, fencing for play areas and new canopies.
Construction for phase two of the Taylor Independent School District bond began recently at Main Street Elementary. Photo by Hunter Dworaczyk
Naomi Pasemann Elementary and Legacy Early College High School will also receive renovations on this stage of the bond.
In addition to approving phase three’s guaranteed maximum price, trustees unanimously approved adding eight alternates to the plans. The additions total $2,489,404, meaning the stage will cost $22,292,119 in total.
“We feel confident that there’s enough remaining after phase one and phase two to accomplish all of this work within the total bond package,” Brooks said.
Four of the alternates involve district maintenance which includes adding an automatic gate operator to the bus parking area, access control improvements for deliveries and office mezzanine renovations. The last district maintenance alternate saved the district money by deleting the detention pond from the plan. Both NPE’s and THJ’s alternates involve classroom flooring replacement and classroom paint, totaling $966,646 and $785,506 respectively.
TMS had the final alternate approved by trustees, $704,768, to renovate its fine arts room.
Now that the prices for all phases have been laid out, Lance Weilder, the district’s director of support operations, said he may come back to trustees soon for some additional alternates that can be added.
“We didn’t want to accept too many alternates in phase two because we didn’t know where everything was going to wash out with the money for phase three,” he said. “We wanted to be very conscious of that and bring a good package that we feel comfortable with.”
Brooks said the selected alternates were determined after meeting with trustees Jim Buzan and Marilyn Tennill and superintendent Jennifer Garcia-Edwardsen.
Board President Marco Ortiz ended the presentation by praising those in charge with organizing the bond.
“It seems like this bond is so much easier and more focused than in 2015,” Ortiz said.
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We feel confident that there’s enough remaining after phase one and phase two to accomplish all of this work within the total bond package.”
-Mark Brooks, senior project manager at Project Control
