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Masonry work for the Neosho Middle School was awarded to Branco Enterprises during Monday night’s Neosho R-5 School Board meeting, held at the district’s new building, the former Neosho Rec-Plex on Fairground Road.
During a June 24 planning session, the Neosho R-5 board of education was presented with bids on masonry work to be conducted on the wall between the gym and the library at Neosho Middle School.
Bids were opened that day reflecting two different types of repairs. One would remove the brick at the lower level of the wall and replace it, while the second would encapsulate the brick with a thin brick, while adding flashing up the wall’s surface to eliminate penetration points.
Three companies submitted bids on the project: Branco Enterprises, which bid $176,500 on the encapsulation method and $143,000 on the lower level brick replacement method; MTS Contracting, which bid $73,300 on the lower level brick replacement only; and Roofing Services and Solutions, which bid $57,000 on the brick replacement option. The latter two didn’t submit bids on the encapsulation method.
During the June 24 meeting, the board approved a $529,900 bid from Joplin Roofing Company to replace the middle school roof. That bid was without the masonry work.
Dr. Richard Page, superintendent of schools, recommended going with the Branco bid as the best way to fix the leak. Combined with the cost of the roof repair, the project still comes under the district’s $1 million estimate.
The repairs are part of a $4.8 million 10-year lease agreement the board chose to enter during its regular June meeting.
“Tonight’s recommendation is based on what the architects have told me. It is the way that they would like to precede,” Page said. “The difference in price was a difference in a duplication of flashing in the roofing.”
After voters approved the construction of a new middle school in 1992, the district entered into a lease agreement to pay for it. In 1998, the district added an additional efficiency lease for air conditioning and were awarded two grants from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
The lease was slated to be repaid in 2012, but the remainder of the old lease is to be refinanced with the new lease agreement. Annual payments will range between $555,000 and $560,000 and payments would be made each March.
Other projects under the lease agreement include installing heating and air conditioning systems at the high school and junior high gyms, replacing windows at Neosho High School, renovation of the administration center and installing new stadium lighting, poles and scoreboards at the baseball and football fields.
Masonry work for the Neosho Middle School was awarded to Branco Enterprises during Monday night’s Neosho R-5 School Board meeting, held at the district’s new building, the former Neosho Rec-Plex on Fairground Road.
During a June 24 planning session, the Neosho R-5 board of education was presented with bids on masonry work to be conducted on the wall between the gym and the library at Neosho Middle School.
Bids were opened that day reflecting two different types of repairs. One would remove the brick at the lower level of the wall and replace it, while the second would encapsulate the brick with a thin brick, while adding flashing up the wall’s surface to eliminate penetration points.
Three companies submitted bids on the project: Branco Enterprises, which bid $176,500 on the encapsulation method and $143,000 on the lower level brick replacement method; MTS Contracting, which bid $73,300 on the lower level brick replacement only; and Roofing Services and Solutions, which bid $57,000 on the brick replacement option. The latter two didn’t submit bids on the encapsulation method.
During the June 24 meeting, the board approved a $529,900 bid from Joplin Roofing Company to replace the middle school roof. That bid was without the masonry work.
Dr. Richard Page, superintendent of schools, recommended going with the Branco bid as the best way to fix the leak. Combined with the cost of the roof repair, the project still comes under the district’s $1 million estimate.
The repairs are part of a $4.8 million 10-year lease agreement the board chose to enter during its regular June meeting.
“Tonight’s recommendation is based on what the architects have told me. It is the way that they would like to precede,” Page said. “The difference in price was a difference in a duplication of flashing in the roofing.”
After voters approved the construction of a new middle school in 1992, the district entered into a lease agreement to pay for it. In 1998, the district added an additional efficiency lease for air conditioning and were awarded two grants from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
The lease was slated to be repaid in 2012, but the remainder of the old lease is to be refinanced with the new lease agreement. Annual payments will range between $555,000 and $560,000 and payments would be made each March.
Other projects under the lease agreement include installing heating and air conditioning systems at the high school and junior high gyms, replacing windows at Neosho High School, renovation of the administration center and installing new stadium lighting, poles and scoreboards at the baseball and football fields.
In other business, the board awarded Flower Box Hiland Dairy the milk bid instead of Springfield Grocer Hiland Dairy, although the Springfield bid was lower.
“I think that with the board seeing some differences between in cost, they felt like the difference them in cost was made up by the differences in service,” said Page. “So what Matt (Persinger with Flower Box Hiland Dairy) does in service, the board felt like that was worthy of the difference in cost of the overall amount, and it fluctuates and that was the other thing: there was an escalated cost, it is just an estimate how much cost there will be. Based on the current cost amount, it was about $14,000, but the fact that he was local, he can provide services on immediate call, it keeps us from having milks stored in coolers over snow days, winter breaks, it is kind of some benefit by us not having to maintain that.”
With the exception of three or four years, since 1979, Flower Box Hiland Dairy has provided milk to the school district, Persinger noted.
The board also:
- Set a tax rate and budget hearing for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 22 at the administrative center, the former Rec Center. By law, the district has to have the hearing before Sept. 1;
- Accepted the following resignations: Tammy Roller, computer lab clerk, Benton Elementary; Jill Coble, paraprofessional, Field Elementary; Kenneth Welch, custodian, Neosho High School; Charles Daley, assistant soccer coach, Neosho High School; Marcia Ellis, food service manager, Neosho High School;
- Decided to hire the following personnel: Robyn Adams, registered nurse, Benton Elementary; Erin Phipps, special education, paraprofessional, Carver Elementary; Yvonne McClintock, special education teacher, Benton Elementary; Linda Tremor, paraprofessional, Benton Elementary; Jody Skinner, mathematics teacher, Neosho High School; Mary Werner, special education paraprofessional, South Elementary; Kelly Bevis, special education paraprofessional, Neosho Middle School; Lanelle Horton, librarian aide, Carver Elementary; Brandy Walker, cook, Neosho High School; Vondra Miller, eighth grade cheer coach, Neosho Junior High; Bill Slade, in-school suspension, Neosho Middle School; Lisha Hardy, secretary, Neosho High School; Geneia Macken, special education paraprofessional, Neosho Middle School; Terri Kemna, assistant track coach, Neosho High School; Jamie Thorson, physical education teacher, Neosho Middle School; and Tammy White, print room clerk central office;
- Approved the 2011-2012 board meeting calendar, and;
- Voted to take sealed bids on four used school buses with a combined trade-in value of between $8,000 and $8,500.
