New change orders added UPDATED

These change orders were added to Monday's agenda and were never considered and discussed by the Board at its Discussion Meeting on February 11, 2013:

Change Orders for High School Project: RESOLVED, That the Board approves the following list of change orders for the High School Renovation Project:

a. GC-27-54 to Nello credit for -$485 as a final accounting for Change Order GC-08-21 issued in the amount of $36,229 with a final cost of $35,744,

b. GC-28-55 to Nello credit for -$6,204 as a final accounting for Change Order GC-09-22 issued in the amount of $22,945 with a final cost of $16,741,

c. GC-29-56 to Nello credit for -$1,287 as a final accounting for Change Order GC-10-23 issued in the amount of $25,658 with a final cost of $24,371,

d. GC-30-57 to Nello for time and materials in an amount not to exceed $55,000 for replacement of damaged corridor walls on the 6th floor of B Building which had to be demolished and rebuilt.

I adjusted the change order list to show the maximum of $55,000 for Change Order GC-30-57. Pretty funny how Mary Birks asked about the list of change orders at Monday's meeting.  She was surprised to hear that there is no list published on the School District website, not even under "High School Renovation." Mr. Marciniak said that they were waiting for a list from the architect. Meanwhile, a complete list is sitting in "The Book of Klein"  that is displayed at every meeting. Not only do "the blogs" have a running total of change orders in the sidebar, "the blogs" provide a photographed copy of Jan Klein's change order list. Shouldn't Mr. Marciniak know about Jan Klein's list? If the list exists in the book that is not allowed to leave the library, why can't that file be posted on the District website?

Update February 16, 2013 4:00 PM  From Dr. Steinhauer's blog:



This morning I took some High School students on a quick tour of the 6th floor
of the B Building. They are anxious to get into the renovated spaces.



With the School District in a quandary over the 2013-2014 budget and may require cutting programs, closing a school, laying off staff and raising taxes, plus a math program that some parents want to eliminate, our superintendent has time to act like a minimum wage tour guide.  If this is the stuff he likes to do, maybe he should get out of education and land a job at the new Fantasyland in Florida.  I hope the tour was before school and not during valuable class time. I am curious as to his methodology for choosing students. 

How much longer will parents tolerate his tweets and tours? Being transfixed by construction and pizza lunches are not in the job description.