School Board Approves Smith-Cotton Contracts
By Allison Elyse Gualtieri, The Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia, Mo.
Feb. 12–The Sedalia school board approved $22.3 million in contracts for work on the new Smith-Cotton High School at its meeting Monday night at Horace Mann Elementary School.
Dennis Paul, president of Septagon Construction Management, presented the bids opened last month with his recommendations on eight contracts.
“The rest of the contracts are little things we can table for two weeks,” he said.
The board voted to award the general construction contract to River City Construction, of Peoria, Ill., for $14.3 million.
Other contracts awarded to the low bidders were:
That contract amount includes changes to plans for the high school that will reduce costs by about $215,000, according to a report submitted to the board by Septagon.
Contracts were also awarded for:
–Asphalt paving and base block, to KAT Excavation, Inc., of Bates City, Mo., for $985,000.
–Precast concrete panels, to Coreslab Structures (Missouri) Inc., of Marshall, for $3.5 million.
–Masonry entrance walls, to Robert A. Treuner Masonry, of Sedalia, for $423,156.
–Prefinished equipment and science equipment, to Glen Alspaugh, of St. Louis, for $291,300.
–Synthetic flooring, to Lankford Enterprises, of Bucyrus, Kan., for $75,500.
–Fire and sprinkler system, to Ozark Fire Protection, of Warsaw, for $316,566.
–Electrical and site lighting, to Citadel Electric Group, Inc., for $2.4 million.
Superintendent Doug Ebersold said the district wanted to award the contracts quickly.
“Our construction schedule is really crunched right now,” he said.
In other matters, the board heard about potential changes to the high school career planning guide, updates to the district technology plan, and information about the planned high school career academies.
Ebersold said the district is still gathering information about the career academies, planned as part of the district’s smaller learning communities grant.
The district is planning for three academies for 10th- through 12th-grade students, he said, focusing on health and sciences, arts and humanities, and business and technologies.
The district has already started professional development for staff, and will gather information about increasing the number of staff members for the program, he said.
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