If an agreement is made with the two companies, board president Marcia Andrew said details will begin to be hammered out.
“Those two firms would work to fine tune what the amount of a levy would be before we place it on a ballot,” Andrew said.
“This is not the contract or the approval of said contract,” said the district’s business manager George Long during Monday’s school board meeting. “Basically this is designating them as the top-ranked architecture and construction management firms.”
Long, district treasurer Kelley Thorpe and a representative from the Frost Brown Todd law firm will negotiate the contracts, according to Long. Negotiations are expected to take four to six weeks.
“If we’re not comfortable with the contract that we are able to to negotiate, we’re under no obligation to proceed with these (firms),” Thorpe said. “We can then go to our second choice firms, if we choose, to try and negotiate a settlement with them, if we cannot reach an agreement with the first two firms. But we would bring that back to the board, because then we’d need another resolution and then move forward with those contract negotiations.”
Board members Greg Tyus and Katie McNeil, Long, school superintendent Greg Rasmussen and Thorpe made up the search committee.
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