{"id":3898,"date":"2023-09-02T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:45:56","slug":"moose-hill-building-project-cost-estimate-34138276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"Moose Hill Building Project Cost Estimate, $34,138,276"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To: Londonderry School Board<br>From: Dan Black<br>Date: August 28th, 2023<br>Re: Moose Hill Building Project Cost Estimate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Spring the School Board approved the Architects sending more detailed conceptual designs to the<br>Trident Group who then worked with three different cost estimator experts to get a budget ready cost<br>estimate on those conceptual designs.<br>Last Spring the School Board approved the Architects sending more detailed conceptual designs to the<br>Trident Group who then worked with three different cost estimator experts to get a budget ready cost<br>estimate on those conceptual designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trident Group then scrutinized and evaluated each of those costs estimates from the three different<br>groups. From that analysis and comparing it to current market conditions, the Trident Group vetted all<br>those cost estimate to come up with the following overall costs for Phase 1A, Phase 1B, and Phase 2 at<br>Moose Hill that they were then comfortable sharing with the Londonderry School Board. The Trident<br>Group would like to note that the budgets below include projected construction costs, projected<br>escalation to 2025, projected soft costs, design, 3rd party consultants, permitting, and Owner provided<br>items such as furniture, fixtures, and equipment for the new spaces, IT for the new spaces, winter<br>conditions and Owner Contingency. 1A includes the loop road (approximately $232\/SF), 1B includes the<br>addition and light renovations within the remaining spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3899\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point we are just sharing this cost estimate with the School Board. No decisions need to be made<br>right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of next steps, the School Board will need to decide if this project makes it to a future warrant for<br>the Londonderry Voter\u2019s Approval. Knowing that the scale of this project is much larger than last year\u2019s<br>Infrastructure Bond \u2013 I would recommend we make a decision much sooner than December\/January \u2013 so<br>if it does make it to the March 2024 Warrant \u2013 there is enough time to explain the project to the<br>community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there are other pieces of information, outside of enrollment projections for the future, that the School<br>Board needs to know, I think we should use this meeting to surface the additional information needed to<br>help make the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After we gather all the necessary information the School Board could decide to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Not bring this building project to the voters this March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There could be many factors that lead the School Board to decide to not bring th<\/em>e project to the voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Decide to bring the building project as one project solving many problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Having one project to vote on will be the easiest plan to explain to the voters. We would still need to<br>explain that overcrowding and Full Day Kindergarten are two separate issues, but one project on the<br>warrant basically says \u2013 this is the cost to sol<\/em>ve Moose Hill\u2019s problems long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) Bring separate warrant articles to the voters that solve the different problems at Moose Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The advantage to this approach is it allows the voters to perhaps choose to fund an overcrowding<br>problem if they are not supportive of full day kindergarten. The problem with this approach is it will<br>create multiple warrant articles and will be harder to make clear what we are asking for from the voters.<br>The other problem is in theory some voters could vote to only solve full day kindergarten but not the<br>overcrowding problem which we do not have a good plan for at this time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, the current drop in kindergarten enrollment changes the dynamic of all the planning that has<br>gone into the building project up to this point. The current conceptual design was built around a range of<br>enrollment from 260 to 300 Kindergarten students (with some room to potentially go one or two<br>kindergarten classrooms higher if needed). Once we have a better grasp on a new longer term projected<br>enrollment for kindergarten, we could update our assumptions around the conceptual plans to be smaller<br>in scale as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the next page are pictures of Phase 1 and Phase 2 just to get a visual of the potential projects at Moose Hill again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3900\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3901\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MH-Cost-Estimate-08-23-2023.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of MH-Cost-Estimate-08-23-2023..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9396020f-4ea5-4ee6-9663-212e68115780\" href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MH-Cost-Estimate-08-23-2023.pdf\">MH-Cost-Estimate-08-23-2023<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MH-Cost-Estimate-08-23-2023.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9396020f-4ea5-4ee6-9663-212e68115780\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Posts<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=3845\">Video: Moose Hill Building Committee, 8\/10\/2023<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=3445\">The Londonderry School Board is now accepting applications for the Moose Hill Building Committee<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=3233\">Moose Hill Kindergarten Expansion, Phase 1 &amp; 2<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=2886\">New Conceptual Design for Moose Hill Kindergarten in Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Londonderry School BoardFrom: Dan BlackDate: August 28th, 2023Re: Moose Hill Building Project Cost Estimate Last Spring the School Board approved the Architects sending more detailed conceptual designs to theTrident Group who then worked with three different cost estimator experts to get a budget ready costestimate on those conceptual designs.Last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}