001Good morning and welcome. My name is Taylor Kingman. As president of the St. Angelo Independent School District Board of Trustees, I would like to welcome all of you who are here today at our special meeting. We appreciate your interest in the activities of our students in the business of SASD. All items that will be discussed at our meeting this morning have been posted as required by state law. And also um as you may be aware, we will have regular board meetings later this month as normally scheduled. As members of SSD, we here to set goals, listen to reports from our superintendent, approve budgets, contracts, and personnel appointments, and to make policy for the district. Please keep in in mind that our meeting is a mean of the board of trustees held in public and not
002a mean of the public. However, we do have a public comment item on our agenda that allows anyone who wishes uh to speak to our board on an item that is not on our action agenda or an action item on the agenda an opportunity to do so. Please listen carefully and comply with the following rules so we can remove through this part of the meeting efficiently. Each speaker will be given a total of three minutes. The district will provide an official timekeeper. Please respect the privacy of others and refrain from identifying students, employees, or other community members by name. Disruption of the meeting will not be tolerated at any time and comments on any subject whether positive or negative must be courteous and respectful. Also, please understand if you offer public comment, the board cannot
003reply to except to thank you for your comments since the matter has not been posted for discussion. I ask that you please refrain from talking while others are speaking. I also ask as I remind my fellow board members to please turn off or silence your cell phones. Again, thank you for being here and for your support of SASD. We do have a quorum this even this morning. Um, and we have no one who has signed up for public comments. So, we're going to move on to our one action item on our agenda, which is bid 25-001, Oaks sewer line replacement change order. And I believe Mr. Henry is going to start us off with that. Thank you for having me here this morning. During our March March school board meeting, the central sewer line project
004was approved for the replacement of 150 ft of sanitary sewer line. The replacement and the replacement of several floor drains and P traps. During the construction, it was discovered that the drain lines were too deteriorated to the point that they could not make connection between the new floor drains to the existing line. Here's an example of what they were trying to uh connect on to. I can bring that around if somebody wants to if you've all had your tetanus shot. Uh the district was notified and met with the plumber in Park Hill to review options. It was determined that the only course of action was to replace the existing drain lines. This will require 200 ft of additional tunneling for the drain line replacement. Pricing will include all additional bonds, permits, flowable fill, tile work,
005and a new grease trap. Our current contractor, Precision Plumbing Solutions, reviewed pricing pricing and submitted a quote. At this time, the administration recommends the approval of this change order to ensure that the project will be completed prior to the beginning of school. Total cost for this change order is $35,000. Do you all have any questions over this, Jason? Was it a competitive seal proposal or was it is that what it was done under? No, this was ju this is just a change order. No, the original job. The original one? Yes, it was a competitive seal proposal. Any further board questions or comments? Mr. Henry, I think we've already discussed this uh internally with uh Dr. Dr. Brandon and you, but they're all they're also going to take care of any type of vertical connection that
006we have. Uh or at least um let us know if the vertical connections that rise toward the vents and the fixtures in the buildings are going to be taken care of. In addition to that, all of the uh current vents that they've tied onto that go up through the roof have uh been solid, so they haven't replaced any of those. But yes, if if we do encounter anything like this that they can't get a good connection to, then we will be replacing. Great. Thank you. It's just quick clarification. Is this more drain pipe like away from the building or is this like part of the structure? It's underneath the kitchen floor is where it runs. It the the original bid that we did replace all the sewer line. It goes from the bathrooms to a
007drain in the mechanical room and then out the back in the parking lot and connects to the city. The these run through the kitchen and then connect into the grease trap that then goes into the uh uh sewer line. Gotcha. Thank you. So my only comment will be that, you know, three years ago when we looked at this piece of property and what it we could do with it, we looked at the sewer line and the possible potential for increasing cost of this project even from the bid at that point in time, which is partly why we elected to move um students from the freshman campus to the main central campus. And um obviously there were a lot of factors um including historic overlays and other things that have been placed on the district. And
008with that in place we elected to use the facility um to the best of its ability and we understood that there was probably going to be risk. We didn't obviously I don't think any of us saw that we're going to have a change order for $300,000 on um the plumbing, but the reality is this is what's happening with working with older buildings. And as we move forward with our bond projects, we need to be very careful to one be using our construction manager that we've already um are recruiting, but two in how we set up our uh projects to be fund uh to be be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars to make sure that uh our taxpayers do not get uh put on the hook for things that are found and not expected and
009that We're unable to complete projects that we anticipate being able to complete with our bond money because we don't have the foresight to see where the problems are going to be. Maybe one last comment, one silver lining in the project is that we will be abandoning some of the older facilities that we are in to consolidate some programs here. So, the maintenance that will be would be required to continue to maintain those buildings that we're moving out of is going to be a savings cost. Uh so that's one silver lining in the process in the consolidation programs where we abandoned some other facilities that we were going to have to put some work into anyway. So and I got a comment and it's just the the and the reason I asked about competitial proposals because
010I think going forward especially what the bond like Dr. Kingman was saying for us to be aware and good uh stewards of taxpayer money is uh you know if we to use construction manager at risk on this job the contractor or the construction manager would be paying the 305,000 not the district because they would have given us a a guaranteed maximum price on this so they would have found that I mean not to say that the guy did I mean it's just that happens when you got different different um ways of doing things. But I think CM going forward on anything a big project like that is our best choice construction manager at risk because that way the school district isn't having to pay an additional like this $35,000. So that's that's my comment. So,
011so I think we just need to be more careful when we, you know, start looking at that more than competitive steel proposal on big projects and which we're going to have a lot of them. So, all right. Any further board comments or questions? All right. Do I have a motion to regarding bid 25-001? Dr. Cayman move for the move for the approval of the change order to ensure that the project will be completed prior to the school beginning at the uh u central freshman campus for lack of a better name. And the total cost of change order is $35,000. Do I have a second? I'll second. So I have a motion from Mr. Dendle and a second from Mr. Gyos. Any other further board comments or questions? All in favor say I. I. All against
012say the same. Motion passes 6-0. And with that, we have no further business this evening or this morning, excuse me. So, we'll be adjourned. Thank you'all for being here.