By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
for Glasgow News 1
While state officials are reviewing the bid package documents for site development work for the future home of a Barren County justice center, and final construction design details are hammered out, the local board overseeing the project has little to do except hear progress reports, and even those were brief at Wednesday’s regular meeting that took roughly 15 minutes.
“We are ready to issue the site excavation and storm drainage bid package as soon as we have AOC approval,” said Tommy Gumm, whose company Alliance Corp. is overseeing construction management. “We’ve had that in now for, I believe, three weeks, and so hopefully we’ll be getting that soon.”
In checking his calendar, he said he didn’t think they could advertise for bids and get bids before the Aug. 28 regular meeting, so depending on how the timing falls, he may need to request a special meeting for approving a winning bid so things can continue to move and they can get a contractor started still in early September.
“That won’t be a problem,” said Barren County Judge-Executive Jamie Bewley Byrd, who chairs the group.
“Yeah, that sounds good,” said Circuit Judge John T. Alexander, who serves as vice chair.
He inquired about how much longer it’s anticipated the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts will need to review the bid package documents, and Dan Peffer, one of three AOC representatives present at the meeting, said, “We’re hoping next week.”
Adam Gillett, one of the architects for the project, spoke on behalf of the design team.
He said they had slightly revised the schedule, changing the date the final design documents were sent to the AOC in October.
“It ends up being no change in dates to the time that it is issued for bid nor the collection of [construction] bids, so that would be, I believe, Jan. 8th is planned to go out to bid, and then early in February, I believe, is when all the bids are collected,” Gillett said, then double-checking the schedule. “2/12 is bids collected, so those remain unchanged.”
The schedule distributed has a tentative start date of March 17 for construction to begin on the actual facility in the 300 block along West Main and West Water streets and along the current Ford Drive in Glasgow.
He said they expected to submit the application for the final development plan Thursday for planning staff review before it goes to the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County for consideration at its Aug. 19 meeting.
“Other than that, we are being diligent and working through our construction documents and on track,” Gillett said.
The next regular meeting is scheduled for noon Aug. 14, primarily via Zoom, and, as noted earlier, the next one after that would be at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 28. After discussion at Wednesday’s meeting, it appeared likely that both of those may be canceled due to a lack of items for the board’s consideration while awaiting some of the other steps to be completed, and then a special meeting may be called. For now, though, the meetings remain scheduled in case something unexpectedly arises, and notices are to be distributed as needed later for cancellations.
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