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Public hearing on school elevator projects set for Monda
By Jennifer Nichols
NT Staff Writer
ATLANTIC - A public hearing about the Atlantic school’s elevator project will be held on Monday during the Atlantic School Board’s regular meeting, which is set to start at 7:30 p.m. and be held in the high school media center. The board will also discuss and possibly take action on accepting a bid for the project. The project includes building elevators at the Atlantic Middle School and Schuler Elementary, and officials are working on the project to become ADA compliant in those buildings.
According to information from school officials and Design Alliance, Inc. Architect Jerry Purdy, bids for the project were due by July 8, and two bids were received. One from May Contracting in Exira, whose bid was $524,424, and Betts and Beer Contracting in Adair, whose bid was $638,000. School officials and Purdy recommended the lower bid from May Contracting in Exira.
“We have worked with May Contracting on previous projects, Adel Public Library and Massena School renovations, and find them to be a quite good contractor,” Purdy said in a letter to school officials. “The owners of the company are on the job site daily performing the work and supervising the work of their sub contractors. This would be crucial with the work in the Middle School.”
Purdy previously had offered four possible elevator configurations, two in which the elevator is constructed on the outside of the middle school and two constructed inside the middle school. He said previously, meetings about the project in the middle school would not completely make Schuler Elementary handicap accessible. Schuler Elementary is accessible if a student can use the skywalk between the elementary and the middle school or by going outside of the building to get to the place needed from there. Board members agreed both Schuler Elementary and the Atlantic Middle School need to be accessible, adding “they weren’t thrilled” about someone having to go outside to get to their destination.
Later, Purdy e-mailed school officials approximate costs for the project, including two figures for the middle school elevator, depending on whether or not the board decides to get with an interior or exterior elevator. The cost of building an indoor elevator in the middle school would be $221,320, and the cost of building an exterior elevator would be $281,600. The cost for building an elevator at Schuler would be $196,812. When Purdy recently presented specifications to the board, they included an interior elevator for the middle school.
In Purdy’s letter, he indicated the bids were higher then the original estimates, and attributed the higher bids to several reasons including a increase in the cost of steel.
“The cost of steel has seen a dramatic increase of over 38 percent since late winter,” he said in the letter. “This affects this project because of the amount of steel in the Schuler addition. That percentage equates to over $32,000.”
According to information from school officials and Design Alliance, Inc. Architect Jerry Purdy, bids for the project were due by July 8, and two bids were received. One from May Contracting in Exira, whose bid was $524,424, and Betts and Beer Contracting in Adair, whose bid was $638,000. School officials and Purdy recommended the lower bid from May Contracting in Exira.
“We have worked with May Contracting on previous projects, Adel Public Library and Massena School renovations, and find them to be a quite good contractor,” Purdy said in a letter to school officials. “The owners of the company are on the job site daily performing the work and supervising the work of their sub contractors. This would be crucial with the work in the Middle School.”
Purdy previously had offered four possible elevator configurations, two in which the elevator is constructed on the outside of the middle school and two constructed inside the middle school. He said previously, meetings about the project in the middle school would not completely make Schuler Elementary handicap accessible. Schuler Elementary is accessible if a student can use the skywalk between the elementary and the middle school or by going outside of the building to get to the place needed from there. Board members agreed both Schuler Elementary and the Atlantic Middle School need to be accessible, adding “they weren’t thrilled” about someone having to go outside to get to their destination.
Later, Purdy e-mailed school officials approximate costs for the project, including two figures for the middle school elevator, depending on whether or not the board decides to get with an interior or exterior elevator. The cost of building an indoor elevator in the middle school would be $221,320, and the cost of building an exterior elevator would be $281,600. The cost for building an elevator at Schuler would be $196,812. When Purdy recently presented specifications to the board, they included an interior elevator for the middle school.
In Purdy’s letter, he indicated the bids were higher then the original estimates, and attributed the higher bids to several reasons including a increase in the cost of steel.
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