In a nut shell, Bethel Park raised taxes, cut 16 jobs, reading programs, music and foreign language classes, and will start charging fees for extracurricular sports and activities last night.
Are we revisiting Building C yet?
Read more: http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_744805.html
Showing posts with label Tearing down Building C. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tearing down Building C. Show all posts
Friday, July 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
No More Secrets
Highlights from last night's School Board meeting:
No more secrets.
Redesign. No, rebid. Board is divided.
Revisit Building C. No, don't revisit Building C. Board is divided.
Issues identified as to what went wrong. No details as to what went wrong. Still don't know.
Nothing decided. Nothing voted on.
Usual abuse to CAC members.
Public apology from Dan Remely.
Podcast available here. 2011/5/2 Reconvened School Board Meeting
No more secrets.
Redesign. No, rebid. Board is divided.
Revisit Building C. No, don't revisit Building C. Board is divided.
Issues identified as to what went wrong. No details as to what went wrong. Still don't know.
Nothing decided. Nothing voted on.
Usual abuse to CAC members.
Public apology from Dan Remely.
Podcast available here. 2011/5/2 Reconvened School Board Meeting
Labels:
CAC,
public apology,
secrets,
Tearing down Building C
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Will change orders run up project costs?
In today's Post-Gazette and Almanac, John Ewing submitted this letter to the editor.
ML school directors didn't rebuild homes
Mt. Lebanon school directors live in houses built in 1925, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1952 and 1955. Not one destroyed their house to build a new one -- yet the high school Building C, built in 1972, is being destroyed and replaced.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11006/1115821-55.stm#ixzz1AHRc04wP
ML school directors didn't rebuild homes
Mt. Lebanon school directors live in houses built in 1925, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1952 and 1955. Not one destroyed their house to build a new one -- yet the high school Building C, built in 1972, is being destroyed and replaced.
According to an architect's Act 34 testimony, tearing down Building C and replacing it will cost $40 million. The district has a debt limit it can't exceed unless the high school project is put to a referendum.
How much of that $40 million to replace Building C is a cost overrun built into the project bidding documents?
Contractors often study bidding documents carefully to bid projects at cost in order to win construction jobs. Most contractors count on change orders to make profits on building projects.
Considering the Mt. Lebanon contract cost is constrained by referendum limits, how much can contractors count on making when Building C is being destroyed and replaced instead of being remodeled?
JOHN EWING
Mt. Lebanon
The writer is a former member of the facilities committee of the Mt. Lebanon school board and also a former finance committee chairman.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11006/1115821-55.stm#ixzz1AHRc04wP
Labels:
change orders,
John Ewing,
Tearing down Building C
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