Averill Park Central School District board approves $39.9 million Phase 2 contracts at emergency meeting

The Averill Park Central School District board voted unanimously at an emergency meeting on March 19 to award contracts for Phase 2 of a $39,900,000 capital project, the board's chair said.

A district presenter summarized the work and the procurement results, saying, "So we are now getting ready for the next capital project phase 2 of the $39,900,000 project. We were able to do the bids. Things went extremely well again." The presenter credited Tony Arnold and the district's architect Mosaic for the favorable bidding results: "Tony Arnold's done a great job learning that with Mosaic, our architect, and we're very happy with contractors and the bids and the way things have come in."

The presenter said much of the Phase 2 work is scheduled for the coming summer and that the district sought an expedited schedule to begin awarding contracts and starting construction: "a lot of this work actually, all of this work that we do is for the summer, so we needed to move the timeline along. There's quite a bit of capital work construction going on in the Capital District this summer."

Following the presentation, the board's chair moved "to approve upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools to award the contracts for phase 2 of the 39,900,000.0 capital project." The motion was seconded (the transcript records a board member identified as "Megan" as the seconder). The chair called for a vote and declared the motion approved unanimously; the transcript does not record individual roll-call votes.

Board members offered brief acknowledgements to the project team. The chair thanked staff and contractors for their work; no amendments or substantive objections were raised during the meeting. With no further business, the board moved to adjourn and concluded the special session.

The transcript identifies Tony Arnold and Mosaic as project participants and records that the contracts relate to Phase 2 of the $39.9 million capital program. The transcript does not specify detailed contract awards by contractor name, the individual vote tallies, or an implementation schedule beyond the general statement that much of the work is planned for summer; those details were not included in the meeting record.