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money by default because we can’t get the invitation to bid posted within the 60-day time limit.”
Mrs. Massie noted that the county can’t expect special treatment from the State Department of Education; that if the RCHS building plans are revised, they’ll go to the bottom of the pile of projects submitted for approval. The same applies to the architects as far as incorporating any design changes ordered by the supervisors, she said, adding, “we’re not the only project that Smithey and Boynton are working on.”
“We started this capital outlay project in good faith,” Mrs. Massie continued, recalling that the School Board received input from teachers and from the community on the scope of the work, as well as its design.
“And we had input from the supervisors,” Mrs. Reeve added.
“That input from the supervisors increased the cost of the construction project from $750,000 to $1.5 million,” the School Board chairman pointed out, noting that a brick and mortar gymnasium was substituted for the originally proposed prefabricated gym at the explicit direction of the supervisors.
As for scaling down the capital outlay project, not only does the 60day time limit make that practically impossible, “we would be negligent if we didn’t say that what we’ve presented is what we need from an educational standpoint,” Mrs. Massie maintained.
“There’s nothing in here (the proposed RCHS expansion) that can be deleted without adding something else. One is dependent on the other,” Mrs. Reeve noted.
Should the supervisors balk at accepting the entire $1.5 million but okay borrowing a lesser amount, “can you switch back to the prefab gym and still meet the time line?” asked Lynne Baines.
“The work hasn’t been done, in terms of an approved plan,” Bill Oli
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