Ames School District Would Pay $1.4 Million for Construction Management of Three Schools

Ames Community School Board members are considering expanding the district's current contract with construction manager Taylor Ohde Kitchell of Des Moines.

The firm in association with Lang Construction Group is currently providing construction management services during the construction of the Miller Avenue elementary school, the first of three new schools to be built in the district.

Monday board members will examine whether the firm should also help oversee the construction of the new Meeker Elementary School and renovations at Mitchell Elementary School.

The district is expected to pay $528,000 for services at the Miller Avenue Elementary school. And Taylor Ohde Kitchell would charge the district a total of $1.4 million, plus reimbursables, if the firm also provided structured value engineering services for the Meeker and Mitchell elementary projects.

Last year the firm said it would charge the district about $3.1 million to oversee all five building projects but have now reduced their estimate to about $2.7 million for all five schools and $1.4 million for the first three building projects.

The board's facilities committee recently discussed using their services for, the four remaining schools saying that the services Taylor Ohde Kitchell provided so far were “very good and needed for the success of the district's construction projects,” according to board documents dated April 15.

The contract ammendment is one of several items on Monday's board meeting agenda. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Ames High School multipurpose room.

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