Politics & Government

Special School Board Meeting on Beach School Renovation Price

Board of Education members are expected to approve an increase in the guaranteed maximum price for Cahill Construction, Inc., a follow-up to another, smaller increase last month

Piedmont Unified School District's Board of Education will hold a short special meeting Tuesday, April 17, from 6 to 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall council chambers.

There's just one item on the agenda: approval of an increase in the "guaranteed maximum price" for the Beach Elementary School seismic renovation project from $7,295,176 to $8,163,700.

Board members were alerted to the pending increase at their March 28 meeting, when they approved a much smaller increase in the guaranteed maximum price.

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At that meeting, Asst. Supt. Michael Brady said both increases trace to several changes in the scope of work being done at Beach. Those include concrete work to deal with an underground spring discovered on the Beach site during construction; a new retaining wall along Linda Avenue (the most expensive single item); repairing damage from dry rot found during construction; and changes requested by Beach School parents.

Brady said the overall costs remain within the project budget ($8,174,000 as of December 2011), with extra work paid for from contingency funds and anticipated finance charges that were recouped when the state released additional bond monies for the project.

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The agenda for Tuesday's meeting is attached above as a PDF.


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