Program Progress Update 29 Nov. 12, 2013 Introduction This is the 29th in a continuing series of Bond Accountability Commission reports on the performance of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s school facilities program. The report is based largely on Construction Manager reports for September and October 2013, information supplied by the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission, and contract documents. These reports focus on construction costs, featuring a format designed to graphically communicate the status of projects in ongoing Segment 5 of the planned 10-segment construction program, including the total costs of each project and the costs of each hard-construction contract. The program is funded by the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission and proceeds of $335 million in District bonds and notes authorized by local voters as part of Issue 14 in May 2001. The OFCC pays for two-thirds of most design and construction costs. New schools to open: The last three PreK-8 projects in Segment 5 of the CMSD construction program – Almira, Miles and Orchard – are approaching completion. The District anticipates moving in to those schools over the long Thanksgiving weekend, with classes beginning early the following week. Renovation of Alcott (PreK-5) was completed a year ago, and Dunbar (PreK-8) opened Aug. 20. Construction of Segment 5’s three high schools -- Cleveland School of the Arts, John Marshall and Max Hayes – is just getting under way, with completion expected in the summer of 2015. For these high schools, the District is using one of the new construction-delivery methods authorized by the OFCC -Construction Manager at Risk. The elementary schools were built using the customary design-bid-build construction-delivery method
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