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Proposed new Jim Starr elementary school
The Coweta County Board of Education approved a maximum price
proposal submitted by the construction manager of the county’s
newest elementary school, on Jim Starr Road in northern Coweta
County.
The new school, located on the northeastern corner of Jim Starr
Road and Tommy Lee Cook Road, is scheduled to be completed for
use by August, 2009, for the 2009-2010 school year.
Meeting in special session, the school board approved a
Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) of $16,146,834 for Jim Starr
Road. The Board met at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June 2, at the
Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in Newnan, before the
annual teacher retirement dinner.
The GMP figure represents the maximum price to complete the
school project for Torrance Construction, the Construction
Manager At-Risk. It includes base construction prices per
received subcontractor bids, construction management fees,
alternates and contingencies.
The school will be funded by revenues from Coweta County’s
2007-2012 Special Local Option Sales Tax for schools, with $4
million in possible growth funding available from the state of
Georgia.
Torrance, a LaGrange contracting company, was awarded the school
project’s Construction Manager At-Risk contract for the Jim
Starr Road school earlier in 2008. The company was responsible
for completing renovations at Ruth Hill Elementary School and
current renovations at Moreland Elementary School.
The Construction Manager At-Risk method allows for the
construction manager to solicit subcontract bids. The GMP
represents the full project estimate following the solicitation
of subcontractor bids by Torrance Construction.
The Jim Starr Road school will be built to 120,000 square feet
and will accommodate an estimated 875 students, similar in size
to the recent Welch Elementary School.
It will be the first Coweta County elementary school many years
to be built with two stories. The front entrance of the school
will appear as a one-story façade. The second, lower story will
open to the rear of the school, similar to Atkinson Elementary
School in Newnan.
The school system’s recent 9th-grade campus additions were
two-story buildings as well.
Monday’s approval of the GMP will allow grading work on the site
to begin in June, with construction to begin immediately
thereafter.
Other school system construction work this summer will include
the completions of the ongoing Moreland elementary School
renovations and the renovations and conversion of the East
Coweta Middle school gymnasium to a band, chorus and classroom
facility.
Classrooms will be painted at Newnan High, Thomas Crossroads,
Arnall Middle and Western Elementary this summer. Floor covering
projects at Atkinson, Canongate, Jefferson Parkway and parts of
Newnan High School will be completed this summer. Newnan High
School and Evans middle school will also have roofing and HVAC
work this summer. |
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