Guaranteed Maximum Price presented for new middle school

December's update to the school board began with a review is current projects. About 25% of the construction documents have been received for the Career & Technical Education Center, and a detailed schedule is due in mid-January

      A Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) for the new middle school is being presented in this meeting – see the highlighted item below. A ground-breaking ceremony is being scheduled for January to kick off construction of the new school on S. Tripp.

Designs have been submitted for the Permian High School Auditorium with construction on track to begin at the end of the school year in May.

    Permian’s JROTC facility is on a similar timeline. Schematic Design has been approved and is now in the Design Development phase with construction planned to start in April 2025.

      The Transition Learning Center is now in the Design Development phase, and surveying/civil engineering is being scheduled for the site of the new facility.

    The Agriculture Farm project has now moved into Design Development.

     Two more projects have been completed. New bleachers have been installed in the main gyms of each of the six middle schools, and the lights are now installed and working at the PHS and Odessa HS baseball fields, and the OHS tennis center.        These are the third and fourth Bond 2023 projects completed, the others being the resurfacing of the middle school tennis courts and the installation of interactive flat panels (Promethean boards).

      The most recent purchase by ECISD Fine Arts is 166 more instruments for elementary classrooms. To date 800 instruments have been ordered and 706 have arrived.

      From the Technology Department, installation of surveillance cameras has begun at Odessa HS; cabling installation for PA/Bells/Alarms/Clocks has begun; and all campus libraries now have an 86-inch Promethean panel on a portable cart.

      The finance update shows about 4% of bond proceeds (approximately $17 million) have been spent with another 8% (approximately $33.5 million) has been designated through purchase orders.

      The next big task coming up is the formation of a committee to select colors for the new middle school. That group will include district leadership, faculty from surrounding middle and elementary schools, and parents from potential feeder schools. They will meet in early January.  

Following the presentation, Trustees voted to approve purchases over $50,000 related to the bond. There are five items on this list this month: $93,620,366 to Teinert, the Guaranteed Maximum Price, for construction of the new Career & Technical Education Center; $5.5 million to Alamo Title for purchase of the property and existing buildings for the new Transportation Center (8860 and 8866 NW Loop 338); $4,668,945 to Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, Inc. for full design services, oversight, and cost control of various Priority 1 and Priority 2 projects; $2,030,435 to Authur J. Gallagher for construction insurance; and $617,384 to Gallagher Construction Company, LP for oversight for Priority 1 and Priority 2 related to roofing projects.