CEDAR FALLS — The Board of Education on Monday approved a $237,050 contract with Black Hawk Roof Company for work this summer at Cedar Heights and Orchard Hill elementary schools.
The bid was nearly $38,000 lower than the estimated cost of $275,000.
“We were very pleased with the bids,” said Denelle Gonnerman, Cedar Falls Community Schools’ chief financial officer.
Last month, Terracon Consultants Inc. of Cedar Falls discussed replacement of portions of the roofs at both schools. A 10,844-square-foot portion of the roof will be replaced at Cedar Heights. Orchard Hill will have a 1,060-square-foot roof replaced.
The cost breaks down to $201,050 at Cedar Heights and $36,000 at Orchard Hill. Terracon’s design services are an additional expense for the project, estimated at $36,100.
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The projects will be paid for with physical plant and equpment levy funds. They were anticipated in the district’s 10-year PPEL plan.
“Part of that 10-year physical plant and equipment plan is a 10-year preventive maintenance roof plan,” said Superintendent Andy Pattee. “So we know even eight, nine, 10 years out which roofs … are going to come up in that time frame that might need maintenance replacement work.”
Black Hawk Roof Company is based in Waterloo and has assisted in many roofing projects throughout Cedar Falls and Waterloo.
Construction is set to begin the week of June 3 and is expected to be completed by August.
In other business, the board:
- Set a March 19 public hearing for the 2024-25 school year calendar. The school year will start on the earlier possible date allowed in Iowa code of Aug. 23 with the last day on May 3, 2025. Pattee noted that a revised calendar may come before the board if a bill in the Legislature is later approved that would allow school to start at any point in the week that includes Aug. 23.
- Approved the retirement of Associate Superintendent Pam Zeigler. The longtime educator with Cedar Falls Schools for 13 year and previously worked 10 years in the Waterloo Community Schools. “I enjoy my job and I really enjoy who I work with so I will miss this. It’s exciting and time to move on,” she said after the meeting. Her last day will be June 30. She plans on spending lots of time with her grandchildren in the Des Moines area.
Today in history: Feb. 27
1807: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.
1933: Reichstag
In 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag (RYKS’-tahg), was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.
1973: Wounded Knee
In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children.
1991: George H.W. Bush
In 1991, Operation Desert Storm came to a conclusion as President George H.W. Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.
1998: Queen Elizabeth II
In 1998, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son.
2017: Wilbur Ross
The Senate confirmed billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary by a vote of 72-27.
2020: Stocks
In 2020, U.S. stocks posted their worst one-day drop since 2011, as worldwide markets plummeted amid growing anxiety about the coronavirus; the Dow tumbled nearly 1,200 points.
2021: Johnson & Johnson
The U.S. got a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that worked with just one dose instead of two.
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