The Joint School Construction Board (JSCB) met on June 25, 2026, to receive reports on financial activities, project progress, and diversity compliance, and to authorize payments and a change order. The board also entered executive session for legal discussions on the project labor agreement and the Elms contract closeout.
I would uh first on the agenda is acceptance of the May twenty-first twenty twenty-six minutes. So moved all in favor? So moved. Report of the secretary. Yes, good morning, Mayor and board members. Um I'd like to report that the city and the school district are in the process of engaging the Bonadio group to do the annual audit. Uh the JSCB is a comp what's called a component unit of the school district. So it's folded into that that overall audit. But there's a separate, it'll be a separate report to the JSB board, which typically takes place in November. Okay. So that'll be a coming attraction, but um they'll be um engaged to begin that work. Thank you. Uh second item, as I reported by email, we successfully closed on the JSB bond refunding on June 17th, which I believe will bring a savings of approximately five million dollars to the district. And um, after the financial folks reviewed current market conditions, we're looking forward to doing a similar refunding in twenty twenty-seven. Uh that's when the next round of bonds have what's called a callable date where we can call in the old bonds and replace them with new bonds. And if interest rates remain favorable, we can uh do it again next year. Awesome. That's good news. And um finally, uh we have um our PLA attorney here, Andrew Bobrok. Um suggest we go into executive session at the end of our uh reporting different reports um to talk first about this a illegal issue with number six, the elms close out that I can brief the board on. And then uh as we've talked about, we want to uh have a legal discussion about the PLA as we begin negotiations with the trade unions. Okay. Any questions? All in favor of do I have to get away for you? No, we ask you that every single moment. Always good to ask. Never heard Stask and uh no we just move on to the report of the program manager. Thank you. Uh, earlier this week, we did receive schematic design documents from the Nottingham team. Uh Webster. So excuse me. The um construction manager then will perform an estimate. We'll reconcile that, and then we'll put together the package that goes to state ed for review and approval as part of the special legislation. We anticipate that being near the end of July, early August. Which is right on schedule. Um you mind moving your mic up just a little bit then. Something is hovering over my head. Were you able to hear everything? Yes, okay. That's much better. Um and then beyond that, we roll into design development documents, and we anticipate that submission to SED in November. And then after that comes the construction document submission, we anticipate that being quarter two of 27. Still on track to uh bid and award and start construction third quarter of 27. Um CM services, we uh conducted a kickoff meeting with them uh moving forward, which is good. Um we continue to meet with state ed at a monthly basis just to talk about uh any uh issues that arise code wise and/or aid. So those meetings will continue, which is good. And then as Joe mentioned, uh we're continuing interior or internal discussions on PLA. Uh the contract for the CM services, this is across the entire just for the first three buildings. Thank you. Okay, and we're calling those the three A buildings.