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Stafford School Board 6 24 2025

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Source
YouTube / Stafford County Public Schools
Date
2025-06-24
Location
Stafford County, VA
Material
Transcript
Extent
688 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-08

Transcript

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001Madam Chair, I will I will hand it over to you. Angie, can you call the role, please? Yes, ma'am. Dr. Chase here. Miss Guy, here. Miss Holstead here. Miss Healey, here. Miss Randall here. Mrs. Sigman, here. Dr. Warner here. Madam Chair, you have a quorum. Motion to approve uh Miss Holstead participating electronically. Second. All in favor? Am I supposed to say I support it? Thank you, Alyssa. Miss Hallstead. That motion carries unanimously. Is there a motion and a second for the agenda? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. All in favor? Miss Hallstead? I Yes, I that motion carries unanimously. Action item 2.1 uh award of a contract in the amount of 2.9 million in change to Samaha for design services for Hartwood Elementary. Motion to approve the contract for Samaha. Second. Any discussion, questions? Yes.

002Okay. Yeah. Um I just first of all wanted to thank staff for um giving me the opportunity to visit the site. Um it was really great and it is a beautiful site um and happy to to have seen the plat and all of that. Um one question I just wanted out there sort of for the for the public to be aware of is um the the difference in sort of design costs or that these design costs are lower because we have a prototype. Is that correct? Yes. Um, Madame Chair, members of the board, yes, Jason Towry, um, it it is correct. Um, it's about a million dollars in difference between what we spent in design on elementary school 18 and then subsequently what we spent on 19 and then Heartwood. So, with each recurring one,

003it's about a million dollars savings per prototype, if you will. Thank you. Mhm. But it's still an investment because we are not building the same exact building on the same exact flat piece of square land. Correct. It's that's like all of that goes into making an example like a prototype um to fit the parcel that we have at the elevation that the you know with the land movement that we need. That's correct. Road access, things like that is all different. And it's having that prototype work on that space that's essentially what we're paying for. Yes. So each each each new site requires a new set of plans for the site itself, permits that go with that, and then construction administration services. But overall, we're we're saving on design, and we're saving in time. Uh because

004we're able to quickly get to we've already got a majority of the design out of out of the bag, so out of the box, so to say. We're also starting to realize as we we're building 18 and 19 now there things were changing that were saving on 18 that we're now saving on 19 that will now save on hardwood. Right. So you get that bang not only once but three times now. Did anyone else have any questions or discussion? I I just wanted to thank the board of supervisors for moving so quickly to give us the resolution. I I know everybody was in communication, but it's just nice to have that confirmation as we move forward and start investing money into these appropriations. And and just one other thing um that just for the public

005to be aware that um the Profer site is dependent on the movement of an easement and if that doesn't come through then we would be given the original 55 acres from the Westlake site. Right. So that's correct. Yeah. But we don't anticipate that there will be a problem. We don't. We've been in communication with the developer and and they're moving expeditiously towards that and we're working with the county now. We actually have a meeting with them tomorrow and then another one on Thursday that on some coordination with that and I want to save the tree. We're we're aware. We talked about that this morning in our design meeting actually the tree. Yeah. Miss Hollstead, I don't want to forget you and it is your district and I know the Heartwood Rebuild is been uh on

006your mind for a number of years. So, if you have anything you'd like to add from virtually the virtual land. Well, I I'm honestly just anxious to get this started and kicked off. And I I really do hope that we are um fast and expeditious in our movement moving forward just getting this to be done on the timetable that we put it on given, you know, all of the worries that we have about the existing building. So, for me, I'm just ready to say yes and get us moving. With that, um, please cast your votes. Alyssa, I'm going to take that as a yes from you. Yeah. That motion passes unanimously. Item 2.02, award of a contract in the amount of $192,000 and change for project management services related to the Hartwood Elementary Rebuild. Motion

007to approve the project management contract. Second. Any questions or discussion on this? this the same prior to this. So with the other projects so that we've they're just adding a new person. All right, please cast your votes for me as well. Okay, that motion passes unanimously. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Susan had a great trip. Thank you. It's so funny. These were Blow it.

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