Politics & Government
$21G Change Order Approved for Haverford HS Stadium Renovation
The project remains on time and under budget, the school board president said.
The Haverford Township Board of School Directors approved change orders for the High School Stadium Renovations Project and the Coopertown Modular Trailer Relocation Project, during a school board meeting on Thursday night.
The school board unanimously approved a $21,155 change order for what the board’s agenda referred to as “unsuitable soil remediation” at the new artificial turf field that is being added as .
“It’s not that the soil is contaminated,” school board member Karen Renshaw said before the board voted. “It just doesn’t pack properly.”
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A representative from C.B. Development Services Inc. who spoke to the board about the change orders said the problem was remediated by putting a layer of rocks down and then placing soil over it. The gravel and the soil, which some school board members said is actually sand, are under the artificial turf.
School Board Member Joseph Martin said, “It would have cost more money to pinprick over the whole site and determine what is bad and what is good,” in terms of the soil.
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School Board President Denis Gray said even with the change order, the High School Stadium Renovations Project is on time and under budget.
“It’s going to be a great thing for our athletes and our students,” Superintendent William Keilbaugh said.
The board also approved a $1,475 change order to switch four doors and frames on portable classrooms, or modular trailers, to bring them up to code compliance, in connection with the Coopertown Modular Trailer Relocation Project.
Gray cast the sole dissenting vote. He said after the meeting that he voted against the change order because, “I don’t like trailers.”
The portable classrooms have already been relocated from in front of Haverford Middle School, where they were used during part of the school renovations, to behind Coopertown Elementary School, where they are used for instrumental music and other specialized services, Gray and Keilbaugh told the Havertown-Haverford Patch in an interview after the meeting.
Haverford Township School District received the trailers from another school district at no cost, Gray and Keilbaugh added.
The cost of the stadium project, including lighting, is $1,468,500, said Keilbaugh in a .
