By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The Hays USD 489 school board approved a $59,449 change order for the new Hays High School at its meeting Monday night.
This brings the total for the project to $114,963,731 and leaves $422,141 of the original $1 million in the project's contingency fund.
The change order included the following items:
1. Relocated wall cabinets and countertops in the journalism lab
2. Relocated markerboards in the journalism classroom
3. Gymnasium athletic court alignments
4. Deletion of gymnasium wrestling mat hoists
5. Revisions to the Performing Arts Center return air HVAC system
6. Addition of wood-finish grilles in the Performing Arts Center for the return air HVAC system
7. Design clarifications to Dressing Room power and lighting plans.
8. Revised Specification Section 087100 – Door Hardware
9. Addition of a wall for the school resource officer's office
10. Relocation of mechanical HVAC and electrical systems in the SRO office
11. Addition of a fire alarm device in SRO office
12. Addition of a new door frame and door for SRO office
13. Design clarifications to the vault finish plan
14. Lowering of the ceiling grid system in Area E commons to accommodate MEP elevations
15. Clarifications to motorized shade control switches in the commons area
The change orders included two deletions: two wrestling mat hoists and one volleyball court for the main gym.
Superintendent Ron Wilson said they thought they could fit three volleyball courts in the main gym, but they could only fit two. The new high school will have two volleyball courts in the main gym and two in gym B.
This is the fourth change order approved on the project.
Nabholz Construction estimates the first sections of the high school will reach substantial completion by July 7. This will include the classroom wings.
The athletic wings, concession stand, and fields and stadium will reach substantial completion by Aug. 13, a Nabholz representative said.
The bond total now stands at $162.8 million.
Dirt work is ongoing at the $15.8 million O'Loughlin Elementary School project. That will include street and parking improvements that will ease congestion during pick-up and drop-off.
The 12,000-square-foot addition will include a new cafeteria, commercial kitchen, art room and secure entrance. The Nabholz representative said the work at O'Loughlin is on schedule.
Work will begin this summer on renovations of the current high school into a middle school. That project is estimated to cost $6.47 million. Students and staff are set to move into the renovated space in January.
Once the current middle school is vacated, it will be renovated into an elementary school. That project is estimated to cost $3.8 million.
A renovation and addition at Roosevelt Elementary School is already complete.