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Adair Justice Center target for bid opening October 23, 2007 It's nail-biting time as architects, Project Development Board, architects, and construction manager approach bid letting with possibility appropriated money won't be enough to cover building with present features By Ed Waggener Bid deadlines for the new Adair County Justice Center is scheduled for October 23, 2007, at 1:00pmCT/2:00pmET, if all goes as planned at the Adair County Project Development Board (PDB) meeting on Tuesday, September 18, 2007. The project could be advertised on October 2 and 9, 2007, , in the Adair Progress and in the Lexington Herald, with the bid opening on October 23, 2007, in a PDB meeting at 6:15pmCT on that date. A pre-bid meeting is scheduled for 1pmCT/2pmET. By the pre-bid meeting date, October 9, 2007, there should be a pretty good idea of whether the project can move ahead with its present design, or if additional cost cutting measures will have to be taken.It was a tense, relatively tumultuous meeting for the board, with PDB members Attorney Marshall Loy and Adair County Circuit Court Clerk Dennis Loy expressing pointed criticism at the Project Architect, Bing Ewen, and Will May, CEO of DLZ, KY, the Frankfort architectural firm responsible for design of the 37,000 s.f. building. "My tolerance is gone," Loy said, when he was not satisfied with the DLZ explanation for why local members of the PDB had not received the final plans for the new building until the night of the meeting. Though the project is set to go forward, it is doing so without the local overseers being fully clear on many details of the project. "I don't know what we're building," Loy protested. Ewen and May maintained that the firm had acted as expeditously as it could, given the need to keep the project in budget, growth in square footage since it began, and revisions required by the Administrative Office of the Courts. The present design, Ewen said, calls for "pretty straight-forward offices," he said. "The courtrooms will be showcases," he said. They will have rich textures and ceiling heights will be inspiring.He also said that those entrance will be made through a fairly low doorway opening out into a dramatic two story lobby, with a circular staircase heightening the experience. "The view from the second level into the lobby will be special, too, he said. Among the changes which may have to be made, Mr. Ewen acknowledged, are a substitution of red oak trim in courtrooms instead of white oak, a change in design eliminating the faux external rotunda dome, a decorative only feature, which will cost $60,000. There may also be brick instead of cast stone on the windows, and other cost cuts. Bids coming in for similar projects are in the $232 to $240 per s.f. range, the board was told. Ewen said that as much as $600,000 could be cut out of the project if necessary to make it work. The building has already had several cost saving measures applied, including ceramic tile instead of terrazzo, columns have been eliminated, roofing material has been downgraded, hallways have been narrowed, and others. Final building specifications are now in the hands of the project manager, Branscum Construction, Russell Springs.Ross, Sinclaire representative to try to cut time out of bond sale The project's financial advisor the meeting, Roger Byrum, with Ross, Sinclaire, & Associates of Lexington, KY, said that if the bids are accepted he may be able to cut one and one-half weeks off the usual one-month time frame for the sale of the bonds. Adair County CJE presided at the meeting, with members, besides Marshall and Dennis Loy, Adair County Magistrate Billy Dean Coffey, and Doug Teague of the Administrative Office of the Courts, present. Member Judge James Weddle, was not present at the meeting. End of report, Tuesday, September 18, 2007, PDB meeting About your Adair County Justice Cener Project Development Board The Adair County Justice Center Project Development Board includes the chairman, Adair County Judge Executive Ann Melton, and Adair County District 1 Magistrate Billy Dean Coffey, Attorney Marshall Loy, Circuit Court Judge Jim Weddle, This story was posted on 2007-09-20 07:34:30
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