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Law enforcement center project timeline delayed, but taking shape

Law enforcement center project timeline delayed, but taking shape
These exterior views show the latest design concept for the new Floyd County law enforcement center, Sheriff’s Office and courthouse updates.
Press graphic by Bob Steenson/Prochaska & Associates drawings.
By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

The latest timeline for the Floyd County law enforcement center and courthouse update project calls for design schematics to be finished in May, detailed design documents ready in June, full construction documents ready for bidders in July and major construction bids due in August.

That’s about three months behind the original schedule presented a year ago, shortly after voters approved a $13.5 million bond referendum for the project.

But Linda Tjaden, a county supervisor and member of the “core team” that is handling day-to-day supervision of the project, said she is satisfied with the pace now that weekly meetings are being held with the project designers and the project construction manager.

Tjaden updated her fellow county supervisors on the project at a board workshop meeting Monday morning, and showed the latest drawings of what the exterior of the project might look like.

“We’re delayed from what we wanted, but right now at least I’m feeling good about the dates they’re giving us,” Tjaden said about the designers/architects, Prochaska & Associates of Omaha, Nebraska, and the construction manager, The Samuels Group, of Des Moines and Wausau, Wisconsin.

“They’re all marching down that path to get these items done” by the dates given at the last core group meeting last Wednesday.

Those dates — which are still tentative — are:
• May 22 – Finish design schematics.
• May 29 – First bid package ready; the site package that includes relocation of utilities, site grading activity, removing unsuitable soils if necessary, fencing, etc.
• June 13 or 20 – Site package bids received.
• June 14 – Detailed design documents ready.
• June 18 – Security and interior design meeting.
• July 26 – Full construction documents ready for bidders.
• Aug. 29 – Construction bids due.

The exterior views Tjaden handed out at the meeting Monday show the project as it has been described in recent weeks, as cost-cutting measures have been discussed.

The biggest change is that the atrium, which in the original exterior drawing was a large, glass-enclosed space that filled most of the area between the current courthouse and the new law enforcement center and which reached almost to the full height of the courthouse, is now much smaller.

The front part of the atrium now goes to about the top of the first floor. The design theme is then continued behind the atrium where glass-enclosed walkways would connect new elevators and restrooms with each floor of the courthouse.

That change alone in the size of the atrium is estimated to save about $590,000.

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