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CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CITY SCH Lincoln Center, Merritt Milf Road Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 Telephone: (919) 967-8211 Neil G. Pedersen Superintendent TO: John Link, Manager Orange County FROM: Neil G. Pedersen Superintendent RE: Bids for Smith Middle School DATE: December 21, 1999 p ~c~c~o~ ; JAN ?4 2000 I U Ann Hart, Assistant Superintendent For Instructional Services Steve Scroggs, Interim Assistant Superintendent For Support Services I am pleased to report that Smith Middle School was successfully bid last month. We awazded contracts at our last school boazd meeting. We were able to accept all alternates, which means that we don't have to make compromises in the design and materials for which we would have to pay later. At our joint meeting earlier this month, a question was raised about our adherence to the Orange County construction standazds. As you can see from the attachment, the Tier 3 Middle School has a capacity of 700 students and a total square footage of 132,192. Smith Middle School has a slightly higher capacity (the difference being spaces for exceptional education students) and is more than 3,000 square feet ~ than the standazd. In 1996, the budget for this school was computed on the basis of $95.00 per square foot. Three years later, this school came in at only $3.54 more per square foot. We are delighted, especially when we were able to incorporate features such as daylighting and the collection of roof runoff. Please pass this information on to the Commissioners to document that we do adhere to the adopted building standards and we have been successful in containing costs on this project as well as the two previous major projects (ECHHS addition and Scroggs Elementary School). We greatly appreciate their support and make every effort to be good stewards of the resources that we are allocated. Cc: Boazd of Education