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Laurel County School board discusses building projects
Laurel County School Board members attended to details on completed and ongoing construction projects Monday, approving several items.
After Project Manager Kevin Cheek reviewed the progress of additions to North Laurel High School and Johnson, Colony and Keavy elementary schools, he explained additional costs have surfaced.
At Johnson Elementary, Cheek asked to install a backflow preventer (cost: $1,992.13) for the existing building, something that was not originally installed because it was not required when the school was built. A backflow preventer prevents water within a building from backflowing into the district water system. Cheek also asked to be allowed to replace 10 feet of clay sanitary lines with line made of PVC (cost: $3,200). The clay line was discovered by surprise when workers were digging to the treatment station. He also asked that the sewer stub leading from the kitchen be relocated (cost: $1,032.49). The stub, which connects to kitchen utility sanitary lines, is in the way of the new addition’s foundation.
At Keavy Elementary, he requested permission to add one door to ease flow of traffic in the guidance area (cost: $1,380). He also asked to replace an exterior mechanical door, the only door left at the school that was originally installed in the 1960s (cost: $1,196).
At North Laurel High School, Cheek asked that additional concrete fill be poured (cost: $598) “due to unforeseen conditions.”
Cheek reported all of the above projects are on schedule and should be completed by July 2010. The projects, which all include adding classrooms as well as updating the existing facilities, are costing the district about $16 million.
All of Cheek’s requests were unanimously approved.
School board members also signed off on paperwork for the project that replaced the bleachers at North Laurel High School. The project cost $123,000 and did not involve any change orders. The bleachers were replaced after a wind storm overturned them.
Final paperwork has now also been completed for the construction of Wyan-Pine Grove Elementary school, with a final change order now approved. The order resulted in a credit to the district of $14,616. Thanks to the cooperation of a nearby land owner, Business Manager Jim Kennedy said workers used “less linear footage” than anticipated to tie into a city sewer line.
Staff writer Tara Kaprowy can be reached by e-mail at tkaprowy@sentinel-echo.com.
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