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School board seeks to make sure roof repair prices are best
Monroe's facilities consultant will seek bids for the project at the Primary School.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Monroe Local Schools Board of Education has directed the administration to seek additional request for proposals to insure the district is getting the best deal to repair the aging Primary School roof.
The district's board during a recent meeting tabled a decision to approve a resolution declaring an urgent necessity to authorize district treasurer Kelley Thorpe to enter into an agreement for the purchase and installation of roof renovations at the Primary School with Kelley & Carpenter for an amount not to exceed $202,867.
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Monroe Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Lolli said instead of Garland Roofing Company running the bid process and working with specific contractors approved to use its materials to repair the roof, the board also would like to see a comparative bid process from people using different materials to determine if the district is getting the best deal.
"The board wants to make sure that we have the very best pricing and the very best materials and the very best warranty since we're going to be investing at least $250,000 in this roof," she said.
Plans call for Quandel Construction, the district's facilities consultant, to contact companies to seek bids for the project. Other companies also interested in bidding on the project may call Lolli at (513) 539-2536, and hit prompts 1 and 3.
Leaks in the roof over the school's gym, cafeteria and some classrooms are prompting officials to hire a contractor to replace and patch the roof.
The work will include putting a new roof over the gym and cafeteria along with the two ends of the building at 255 Macready Ave., district officials said.
The roof over the gym and cafeteria have reached life expectancy of 30 years, and other portions are 15 year old, said Primary School Principal Jody Long. The project also calls for the middle part of the roof to be patched since it is only five years old, Long said.
The district hopes to begin the work sometime in June, Lolli said.
The tar-like sealer roof that will be replaced with sheet metal has never been fully repaired since the district's inception in 2001.
Last year, Garland scoped the roof using infrared technology to determine what areas of the roof needed the most work, district officials said.
