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Cost Too High
At last Wednesday's meeting in open session, the board members discussed alternatives presented in the architect’s program and cost analysis. It became immediately apparent that the price tag architect Haskell Brown attached to the building project was way over the original $90,000 estimate included in the 1982-83 budget.
“Have you got a sense of humor?" asked Nelson Lane Brown after reviewing the cost analysis. "You'll think you walked into a Dean Martin roast tonight. With figures like this. I think we ought to nickname you E.T.!” the board member said, referring to Steven Spielberg’s popular movie about an extra-terrestial from out of this world.
Brown’s building program doubled the square feet in the vehicle maintenance facility from around 2.000 in rough drawings presented several months ago by Lane to 4,000. As conceived by Mosely-Henning, the bus shop would also include three vehicle maintenance bays instead of two, a vehicle lift, offices for the transportation superintendent, storage for equipment and batteries and an auto exhaust system and emergency shower, both required by the state building code.
In the Mosely-Henning proposal laid out on the fable last week, space in the central school board office increased as well from the original drawing made some months ago, jumping from
73.8%