KEARNY –
In just a few weeks, the Kearny Board of Education should find out if has enough money left in the kitty to complete the ongoing high school improvement project.
At 3 p.m. on Dec. 15, BOE Business Manager/Secretary Michael DeVita will open bids previously solicited for the Aircraft Noise Abatement and Addition/Renovation at Kearny High School, North Building.
Representatives of the BOE and DiCara/Rubino Architects, assigned to the project, were scheduled to show the building and explain the project and construction sequences required to complete it at a pre-bid conference and walk-through on Nov. 12.
Eligible bidders must meet state Department of the Treasury, Division of Property Management and Construction requirements in any of the following disciplines: general construction, general construction/alterations and additions with structural steel, plumbing, HVAC and electrical.
The BOE is drawing on funding provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, Port Authority of N.Y. & N.J. and state Department of Education for the project which has been dragging on for several years.
It has been complicated by the BOE and the original general contractor parting ways with the job still largely unfinished and the BOE revising specifications for the final phase of the job in hopes of staying within the budget allotted.
But the BOE must also factor in future payments it will likely have to make following the settlement of arbitration and mediation sessions with the original G.C., Brockwell & Carrington.
– Ron Leir
