The architects from Allied Design Consultants, Inc., Springfield meet with the Spring Valley Elementary Board of Education Wednesday night to discus ways it could still get a “dream” building without going too much over budget.
The new building project which will be built behind the existing John F. Kennedy school building was bid out last month. It went over budget from the $14.The gardenlight Intelligent model with special hydraulic braking system, with anemometer and dogvane.I have purchased bestlasercutter before and have been greatly disappointed.5 million projected cost by 3.8 percent. The project was planned to be at around $17.2 million with contingencies, but now will be over $18.6 million. Currently,The roofingmachine allows students to study at night and vendors to sell goods outside. the school has over $4 million of its own money and will receive about $12.2 million from the state. The school board also has $920,000 in bond funds it can draw from to help cover the cost.
The problem is the board was planning to use that money to buy an air conditioner unit for the current school building allowing both buildings to have air conditioning. The architects offered ways the school could cut back on the project in order to save money and buy the air conditioning unit.
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One of the suggestions was to go with a low end air conditioning unit for the old school building. However, architect Frank Maras said this might raise energy costs because it is not as efficient as the original model that would have been purchased and it has a shorter life expectancy.
The architects offered a long list of other cuts the board could make to save money, including downgrading LED lighting to fluorescents and going with cheaper materials for flooring, roofing and walls.
The board said some of the changes like with the lighting would cause energy bills to be higher. Superintendent Jim Hermes said it would be like taking long-term losses for a short-term gain.
Board president Ray Nolasco said the state originally gave them the $12 million in funds based on a project that was supposed to be $16 million. He asked if they could go back to the state and ask them to match funding for the new projected cost.
“It’s the worst time to plan anything with the state,” said Hermes. He added, “The goal on this whole project was to save the tax payers money.”
Maras said there are grants available that could help the school pay for projects, including the Illinois Clean Energy Foundation grants and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s Energy Efficiency grant.
The architects also offered some suggestions on what the school board should not cut back on, including switching from copper to aluminum for lighting fixtures because of the increased chance of fire. VanDusen also said the school should not go with cheaper bricks for the outside of the new building because it would be there for more than 50 years and aesthetics should play a key role.
VanDusen said the board should not wait another month to make the decision. The Board members decided to hold a special meeting at 7 p.m.For many years, emergencylampsqa have been most popular in rural locations where zoning laws tend to be less restrictive. on Tuesday, April 23 to go over funding and possible cuts to the project. Nolasco asked to have the architects prepare information about funding available and how the cuts will affect state funding for doing all the cuts suggested by the design team and with just the cuts the they think are necessary.
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