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https://www.madisondailyleader.com/news/local/article_f1583dc8-a12c-11ef-890f-67ab39cb5e3f.html Renovation, addition considered for Madison Middle School The Madison Central School District School Board considered three options, ranging from $2.9 million to $7.9 million, for a renovation and addition to the Madison Middle School at its Nov. 11 meeting. Once plans are finalized, construction could begin as early as spring 2025. Discussions by School Board members included basic renovations to all classrooms and additional classrooms, as well as the main middle school entrance update. A public hearing will be scheduled later in November or in early December to share the final plan with the public and get feedback. No plans are finalized yet. For years, district and middle school administrators and staff have had concerns about the current entrance, which doesn’t have a separate bus lane and has steep steps and an aging ramp outside the building. The ramps and stairs cause issues for maintenance when removing snow and ice, and they can pose a safety hazard to students trying to enter. All three options included an addition to the school’s entrance, building it out south and creating a new administrative space and placing stairs inside rather than outside the building. These options would also include a separate bus and parent pick-up and drop-off lane. Currently, they share a lane, with all buses and parent vehicles entering the lane and parking lot east of the middle school and traveling westward past the high school before exiting. The plan would build out a bus lane eastward from the current parking lot, adding new parking spaces in front of the building. The lane could fit nine school buses in a row. A separate lane for other vehicles would be closer to the high school, immediately west of the bus lane and taking up most of the current bus lane and parent pick-up area. The additional parking area in the bus lane could reduce parking on Ninth Street outside the school, as it would provide more room for off-street staff parking, Jorgenson mentioned. These parking lot and lane changes would be part of a larger renovation to the entrance itself, including the additional office and meeting space. The parking lot and school proper are at different elevations, with the outside stairs bringing people down to enter the building at the lower elevation. In all three plans, the elevation difference would be handled by having the office space at the higher elevation of the parking lot with stairs and a wheelchair lift inside the building, reducing concerns about icy conditions. In this plan, the reception area would be immediately west of the doors rather than north, as it is currently. This area would also have the principal’s, counselor’s and nurse’s office, plus a room for in-school suspension and office restrooms. To the east of the entrance area would be a meeting room. A wheelchair lift immediately north of the meeting room, with stairs north of the doors, would bring students, staff and guests about four feet down to the main level of the classrooms. A new classroom could also be added in an empty space east to the exit for the wheelchair lift, but that was not included in these preliminary plans. This addition alone would be about 3,150 square feet with an estimated cost of $2,988,090. If classroom renovations for existing rooms are included, that number goes up to $4.4 million. The second option bumps the addition to 8,150 square feet, including more lockers and four additional classrooms built at the elevation of the existing classrooms. These classrooms would be built east of the new entrance and would encroach on some of the green space east of the school but would not cut into the football field. Four classrooms are the magic number currently because it would cover a whole grade level, Jorgenson said. Fifth grade could be moved to the middle school if the elementary school exceeds capacity, or classrooms at the high school and middle school could be shifted if the high school exceeded its current capacity. Option two would cost $6.9 million for the entrance addition, bus lane and classroom renovations. Option three would encompass all the renovations in options one and two but would also include renovations to the existing administrative space located north of the current and proposed entrance. This $7.9 million project would adjust the current rooms and add new student restrooms. Jacob Ricke, of JLG Architects, presented these options and said the current administrative space could be repurposed without a major renovation, to lower costs. Jorgenson said classroom improvements could be done on a rotation for the same purpose. At this time, the school’s population is expected to grow by about 10 students per year, Jorgenson said. “It gives us a lot of room to grow,” he said of the additional classroom space. These cost estimates were higher than those presented by Superintendent Joel Jorgenson at a September meeting, who said the cost to renovate the area would be between $1.3 million and $4.2 million. At the Nov. 11 meeting, Business Manager Mitchell Brooks said about $3.5 million has been set aside for this type of project in the 2024-2025 school year, though he said other funding sources could allow the district to pick up another few million for it. He said he doesn’t expect the high cost estimates to cause a financial burden to the school district but that certain parts of the project would likely need to be scaled back in case of option three. “If we want to update the middle school, where it probably won’t need to be touched as much for 20 years, (and it) solves some problems district-wide, if we do that one time, it’s definitely more cost-effective,” Brooks commented. In a follow-up interview, Brooks told the Daily Leader that taking out a loan for this project will not increase taxes. If the payment term is under 24 months, the district can work through a bank, and if it’s over 24 months, the district will issue certificates. The project is also not big enough to require a general obligation bond. This means the funding would not go to a public vote. Any loan the district takes out for this project would be paid off through its capital outlay fund, which has sufficient taxes paid into it every year. The capital outlay fund is not currently being used to pay off any debts from previous projects, leaving the funds more flexible than they otherwise would be. Brooks also predicts the total cost will come in less than the estimates for a variety of reasons, including reducing the scope, possibly creating a rotation for classroom improvements and intentional over-estimation. “The architects, they do a nice job, but they also make sure it comes in under what they’re projecting,” Brooks explained. “They are pretty safe numbers they put out there.” In anticipation of this project, the district has also saved $300,000-$400,000 for several years to go toward this project. By building up the capital outlay fund, the district will be able to pay for a larger portion of the project with cash on hand and less with a loan, reducing the short- and long-term costs to the district and its taxpayers. “It’s been talked about for a long time, and it seems like we’re in a good position. (Interest) rates are coming back down, building costs are going back to normal,” he explained. “I think it’s a pretty good time to have all this start. We’re pretty optimistic.” -------------------------------------- The Madison Central School District 39-2 is seeking qualifications from Construction Management Companies interested in providing professional services required for the construction of an approximate 3,500 square foot addition consisting of a middle school entrance and office area; new school bus lane for separate pickup and drop-off of students, and also 20,000 square feet of renovations and updates to the existing middle school building. The project budget is estimated at $4.5 million. The District is also considering alternates which include new construction of additional classrooms of 5000 square feet and renovating another 3650 square feet of the building. The budget for the alternate is estimated at $2.5 million. This budget shall be inclusive of all CMR fees, construction, furnishings and contingencies. CMR Services will be contracted using A I A Document A133 and General Conditions as a basis for Agreement. It is anticipated that the project will be starting in early 2025. This schedule will be set and adjusted as needed by the Construction Manager. Project questions may be directed to: Jacob Ricke, AIA JLG Architects 230 South Main Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 p 605.271.1093 jricke@jlgarchitects.com. Firms wishing to be considered for providing professional CMR services for this project should send a Statement of Qualifications. Provide the following with the Statement of Qualifications: experience with comparable projects; financial and bonding capacity; managerial resources and the ability of the personnel; knowledge of local or regional conditions; recent, current, and any future project workload; legal judgments against the construction manager; References and owner contact information for your last three comparable CMR projects completed.