The Stratford High School renovation subcommittee is working to get a construction plan to the Town Council in the next few months.
The renovation group has received proposals from four companies that would like to be selected as the construction manager, and those proposals include descriptions of how they would handle each of four different construction schemes that are going to be considered by the committee.
Chairman Alan Llewelyn said at the group’s meeting on Oct. 20 that if the committee members can each get the proposals evaluated and conduct interviews with the four companies by Nov. 6, then scores of the interviews would be tallied with the help of a consultant by Nov. 13.
At that time the prices from each construction management (CM) company for each construction scheme would be revealed to the committee. The intention is to keep prices under cover until the committee has first made decisions on the merits of the proposals and schemes alone.
Traffic study and timing
While the committee evaluates the CM proposals, Antinozzi Associates architects, which has been retained for the high school project, will undertake a traffic study of the area, according to Paul Antinozzi.
A traffic study is critical since one of the construction schemes being explored is closing King Street to through traffic.
It was not determined when the renovation subcommittee would be able to get its formal recommendation to the Town Council’s building needs committee and then to the full Town Council. If and when the council approves a plan for Stratford High School, it would then take a year to prepare all construction plans and then approximately two years for construction.
The renovation or reconstruction project that was formally discussed starting in 2010 might then have an expected completion date of 2018.
For a description of the four construction schemes being explored, visit StratfordStar.com.
Plodding
The Oct. 20 meeting started without a quorum, with Len Petruccelli, Bob Chaloux and Llewelyn the only committee members in attendance.
Jason Santi and Stephanie Philips arrived during the meeting, making a quorum.
Dan Senft, Alan O’Neal and Christian Barnaby were absent.
There was difficulty among attending committee members in determining when the next meetings of the committee could be, and there was a question whether a committee recommendation could make it to the Town Council before the end of the year.
Board of Education Chairman Andrea Veilleux, attending the meeting as an observer, spoke up and said she was concerned about the timeline of the project.
Chaloux suggested that it would help the group if there was a timeline written down with key target dates for decisions and work.
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