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:, 128th Year--Edition 36 .......... P.O. Box 577, Owingsville, KY 40360 • @h': 606-674-9994 September 05, 2013
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By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
Demolition of the old Salt
Lick Elementary School
building is near comple-
tion, and Frontier Housing
is ready to begin construc-
tion on the location.
Salt Lick Mayor Brad
Frizzell told city council
members Tuesday evening
during their regular Sep-
tember meeting that the
demolition" of the school
building and clean-up
should be finished by the
end of the week. The de-
molition is being handled
by Rayburn Excavating,
from Olive Hill, who has
been at work at the site for
three weeks.
Frizzell said that he met
with the demolition con-
tractor and Frontier last
Thursday, and he learned
that Frontier Housing was
preparing to get the site's
infrastructure in place so
that housing construction
could begin very soon.
The City of Salt Lick was
awarded a Community De-
velopment Block Grant in
July 2012 for $889,000 to
assist in the purchase and
demolition of the Salt Lick
Elementary School as well
as for the construction of
six new low-to-moderate in-
come homes on the site by
Frontier Housing of More-
head.
Frontier Housing is
expected to contribute
$398,000 of its own funds
to the project.
Frizzell said that he has
been pleased with the cost
savings in the project so
far. $182,000 was budgeted
for the property purchase
from the County
School District, and it was
actually purchased for
8143,000. The demolition
and clean-up work has
cost $128,530, more than
837,000 under budget. He
said that he expects site im-
provement costs to "come
in in good shape" as well,
under the $62,000 budget-
ed. ,.
Frizzell also announced
that one home had already
been sold to a family in-
terested in moving to the
area. He said that Frontier
Housing's next task will be
to publicize the housing de-
velopment across the coun-
ty, looking for interested
applicants for the remain-
ing homes.
The lots will be deeded
over to Frontier Housing
prior to the beginning of
construction, Frizzell said.
In other business, Mayor
Frizzell shared the town's
annual financial statement
with council members Bill
Unchester, Walter Powell,
and Martha Jean Gulley.
Council •members also ap-
proved a request to replace
sidewalk along Church
Street, across the elemen-
tary school. Frizzell said
that he had gotten an esti-
mate of $3500 for the 145
feet of sidewalk to be re-
placed but that he would
attempt to keep costs low.
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photo by Cecil Lawson
Salt Lick City Council members Bill Unchester, Walter Powell, Martha Jean Gulley,
and Mayor Brad Frizzell looked over the town's annual financial report during the
regular September meeting on Tuesday evening. Mayor Frizzell announced during
the meeting that the demolition of the Salt Lick Elementary School was nearly done
and that construction by Frontier Housing of six new homes would begin soon.
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
Bath County School
Board members tabled ac-
tion on new bids for the
Owingsville Elementary
School renovation project
after those bids came in
over budget week.
During a special called
meeting last Thursday
evening, board members
heard from project archi-
tect Chuck Trimble from
Murphy Graves, who brief-
ly explained the situation.
Trimble confirmed that
bids on the second phase of
the OES project had come
in over budget last Tuesday
follo ng the bid openings
from various contractors.
Construction manager
Kenny Davis, of Codell
Construction, said during
last week's bid opening that
the overall bids were 15 to
20% over the existing bud-
get of 85.2 million dollars.
Trimble explained that
the school board is now al-
Photos by cecil Lawson
With board members Sandy Crouch and Connie Grimes looking on, project archi-
tect Chuck Trimble explained the process of re-submitting bids for the Owingsville
Elementary School renovation.
three lowest bidders on the
various parts of the project.
He said that he would go
back to project plans and
come up with a "shopping
list" of items in the project
that could be "Beaked" or
This scale computer-designed drawing, created by
Murphy Graves Architects, shows the exterior im-
provements to Owingsville Elementary School that
will take place during the second phase of the proj-
ect. The new gym is shown in the top right hand
corner of drawing by the buses, which will be built
at the back of the school. The drawing is available
for viewing in the front hall of the OES.
be treated as additional al-
ternatives.
He said that new bids
would be submitted on
Thursday, Sept. 12.
He called the process
"a slight dell;" but added,
"We are moving forward.
We are on time."
Trimble noted that "bid-
ding climates are odd" right
now.
Last week's bid opening
featured dozens of contrac-
tors bidding on eighteen
separate parts of the sec-
ond phase of construction.
The renovation project
will include a new 230 seat
gym, the conversion of the
old gym into a cafeteria plus
a new kitchen, and the con-
version of the old cafeteria
into three full-sized class-
rooms.
The project is being fund-
ed through both zero-inter-
est federal loans as well as
existing building funds.
The first of the project
was completed over thq
summer and included a
new bus route that goes
behind the existing school,
and the re-routing of parent
traffic and student on and
off loading locations.
Later in the meeting,
school board members
met for interviews with rep-
resentatives from Trane,
CMTA Engineering, and
Ameresco for performance-
based contracting.
Each of these companies
does work with energy so-
lutions, heating/air-condi-
tioning, and climate control.
Performance-based con-
tracting invOlves the use
of a smaller up-front cost
and savings from efficiency
over time to pay for the proj-
ect.
Board members met with
representatives for over
three hours and took no
action before adjourning at
nearly 11 p.m.
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