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Grapevine High School will be undergoing construction work for the next two summers.
During the Feb. 23 Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board of trustees meeting, a guaranteed maximum price contract worth nearly $14.43 million was awarded to Lee Lewis Construction.
Chief Operations Officer Paula Barbaroux said there were proposals from 53 subcontractors to cover 26 different areas for the renovations included in the $150 million 2024 bond program.
The outlook
Barbaroux said the work will be done when school is not in session, during this summer and next summer, with a substantial completion date of Aug. 1, 2027. The 17-month timetable is due to roofing work that needs to be completed.
She said the contract amount came in under budget by about $2.2 million. Barbaroux added a previously-awarded contract of $239,058 for electrical work, which is included in the $14.4 million cost.
“That’s really good news,” she said of the work being under budget. “That's always a little bit of a risk, but it worked to our favor.”
The specifics
The work at Grapevine High School is part of Proposition A, which was approved by 61.3% of voters during the May 2024 election. It is part of an overall $150 million bond package.
Some of the work listed on the bond package is part of the Grapevine High School renovations. One of the projects that Barbaroux mentioned was replacing the vent hood system in the school kitchen. The bond website states the system dates back to 1984, and work needs to be done to meet code requirements.
According to board documents, other projects at Grapevine High School include:
Also on the agenda
Barbaroux provided updates on work at Colleyville Heritage High School, also part of the 2024 bond package.
She said ongoing work involves valves and piping in phased sections on the second floor of the academic wing. Work on the second and third floors will be completed this summer.
The presentation on other bond projects shows that work at Colleyville Heritage on the athletic locker room and the conversion of an existing kitchen lab into a commercial culinary career and technical education teaching kitchen will be finished in the summer of 2027.
Barbaroux cautioned that the next rounds of renovations could be over budget. She said the goal is to bring back more recommendations for construction during the March meeting for six or seven campuses. She said that the list includes Colleyville Middle School and Bear Creek, Grapevine, Glen Hope, O.C. Taylor and Timberline elementary schools.
One more thing
The second sale of bonds from the May 2024 bond was approved during the meeting. The administration requested to initiate the sale of $50.8 million, with the final maturity of the bonds not to exceed Aug. 15, 2049.
According to the presentation, the all-in true interest shall not exceed 4.25%, and the sale must be completed prior to Feb. 22, 2027.
The remaining amount unissued from the 2024 bond is $36.2 million for school facilities and $3.6 million for technology, according to GCISD documents.
