Warsaw School Board Approves New Playground Equipment
November 14, 2018 at 6:04 p.m.
Warsaw School Board Approves New Playground Equipment
By David [email protected]
Two sets of playground equipment will be purchased from GameTime for $95,324.89 each, for a total of $190,649.78.
Warsaw Community Schools Director of Maintenance, Buildings and Grounds Jim LeMasters told the board that they looked at the same equipment other WCS schools have, and said that GameTime is on the national bid list. “And if we can order – they said by the end of October but they extended it for us – we get a discount of about $70,000, so it’s about $95,000 at each school,” he said.
He said a community build for the new equipment will be done in the spring, much like the playground equipment at Lincoln Elementary School was installed. He said that Metzger Trucking has already agreed to pick up and deliver the equipment, which will save the school corporation money.
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Randy Polston, school board member and former Harrison principal, said, “I am hoping that after all these years that ground has softened up a little bit. When we first started putting in that playground equipment out there, the company had a terrible time drilling down into the ground. It was extremely hard and it took them a lot longer.”
LeMasters said the school corporation has purchased its own auger that fits onto a Bobcat, which should help with that problem.
LeMasters said the pea gravel currently on the surface of the playground is not up to code; it will be replaced with wood mulch. Rubber is more expensive, he said, and wood mulch seems to hold up really well.
The playground at each school has been there since the schools opened in 1991. A lot of it already has been ripped out because it’s wood and is disintegrating, LeMasters said.
While the board approved the playground equipment Tuesday, it won’t be asked to approve the purchase of boilers at Warsaw Community High School until its regular meeting on Monday. The cost for the boilers from Core Mechanical is $23,695.
WCS Financial Operations Manager April Fitterling said Assistance Director of Maintenance Sam Cook “wrote this one up because the boilers there currently are hot water boilers, and are on their last leg and could go out at any moment.”
Fitterling said Cook got two quotes and he recommended the quote from Core Mechanical. The money will come out of budgeted Capital Projects Funds.
The board did select a criterion designer for the WCHS cafeteria expansion project.
“We asked for proposals for criterion design, and this goes for our cafeteria project in the summer, because we’re using the design build process,” said Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert. “You have to have a criterion designer, even though it’s a small part in the overall plan.”
He said WCS got two responses, and recommended the architectural firm of Lancer & Beebe Inc., Indianapolis, because it was the lower of the two bids. Lancer & Beebe was the criterion designer for the Washington, Lincoln and Edgewood Middle schools projects. After the meeting, Hoffert said the contract was for around $7,000.
The board unanimously approved that recommendation with the continency that Lancer & Beebe can guarantee they can get the design done to meet the school district’s timeline for the cafeteria project.
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Two sets of playground equipment will be purchased from GameTime for $95,324.89 each, for a total of $190,649.78.
Warsaw Community Schools Director of Maintenance, Buildings and Grounds Jim LeMasters told the board that they looked at the same equipment other WCS schools have, and said that GameTime is on the national bid list. “And if we can order – they said by the end of October but they extended it for us – we get a discount of about $70,000, so it’s about $95,000 at each school,” he said.
He said a community build for the new equipment will be done in the spring, much like the playground equipment at Lincoln Elementary School was installed. He said that Metzger Trucking has already agreed to pick up and deliver the equipment, which will save the school corporation money.
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Randy Polston, school board member and former Harrison principal, said, “I am hoping that after all these years that ground has softened up a little bit. When we first started putting in that playground equipment out there, the company had a terrible time drilling down into the ground. It was extremely hard and it took them a lot longer.”
LeMasters said the school corporation has purchased its own auger that fits onto a Bobcat, which should help with that problem.
LeMasters said the pea gravel currently on the surface of the playground is not up to code; it will be replaced with wood mulch. Rubber is more expensive, he said, and wood mulch seems to hold up really well.
The playground at each school has been there since the schools opened in 1991. A lot of it already has been ripped out because it’s wood and is disintegrating, LeMasters said.
While the board approved the playground equipment Tuesday, it won’t be asked to approve the purchase of boilers at Warsaw Community High School until its regular meeting on Monday. The cost for the boilers from Core Mechanical is $23,695.
WCS Financial Operations Manager April Fitterling said Assistance Director of Maintenance Sam Cook “wrote this one up because the boilers there currently are hot water boilers, and are on their last leg and could go out at any moment.”
Fitterling said Cook got two quotes and he recommended the quote from Core Mechanical. The money will come out of budgeted Capital Projects Funds.
The board did select a criterion designer for the WCHS cafeteria expansion project.
“We asked for proposals for criterion design, and this goes for our cafeteria project in the summer, because we’re using the design build process,” said Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert. “You have to have a criterion designer, even though it’s a small part in the overall plan.”
He said WCS got two responses, and recommended the architectural firm of Lancer & Beebe Inc., Indianapolis, because it was the lower of the two bids. Lancer & Beebe was the criterion designer for the Washington, Lincoln and Edgewood Middle schools projects. After the meeting, Hoffert said the contract was for around $7,000.
The board unanimously approved that recommendation with the continency that Lancer & Beebe can guarantee they can get the design done to meet the school district’s timeline for the cafeteria project.
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