Background
Renewal Plan:
The Renewal for the East Anchorage High School is the product an original comprehensive master planning process and updates to the master plan at each successive phase to insure the best overall final facility plan. The preparation of the plan combined the efforts of Anchorage School District Facilities Staff, the East Anchorage High School Principal and Staff, Consultant Team, and a Planning and Design Committees consisting of teachers, staff, parents, and students. Winchester Alaska, Inc. was selected and hired as the Architect and Consultant Team for the Renewal Planning Process in late May of 1999. The first Renewal Master Planning meeting was held on June 17, 1999 following the initial facility condition survey work. The process culminated with the final meeting of the Design Committee on September 21, 1999. Final cost information and documents were presented on October 19, 1999.
Phase 1 – April 1999 Funding:
The Renewal Plan was initially developed in final form into three Funding Cycles, each consisting of 1-3 phases of work. The Renewal Plan was accepted and approved by the Anchorage School Board in January of 2000 and the first Phase of funding was included in the Bond Proposal for April 2000 approval. The voters of Anchorage approved the Bond Issue and the Phase I of the Renewal Plan was begun in June of 2000. Meetings of all the stakeholders were completed on several occasions during the summer of 2000 culminating in the Schematic Design being presented in September 2000. The process was completed through Design Development and Construction Documents for Bidding in March – May 2001. When the bids came in over-budget, the project was reduced by deleting the site work and new main entries and re-bid in May 2001. The project was awarded in June 2001 and construction began. The contractor completed the first half of the project including the New Commons, Kitchen, Track, Weight Room, Exercise Room, and (2) new Chemistry Classrooms on or about April 2002. The contractor finished the remainder of the project including 11 new classrooms and Extended Learning Center in August 2002.
Phase 2 – December 2001 Interim and April 2002 Bond Funding:
The Anchorage School District revised the funding cycle plans from above and decided to fund projects just as the funds are needed for construction and for design of the next phase of work rather that as full Construction Projects prior to completing design. As a result in December of 2001 the School Board approved interim funding for the full design of Phase 2 work to be completed in April 2002 and Schematic Design of Phase 3 work to be completed by April 2002. The Phase 2 Funding Cycle for Bond approval in April 2002 for East High School contained the funding for the following:
a. Deferred Phase 1 Site work and Entries
b. Phase 2 Package Construction, 8,600 sf addition for temporary library
c. Full Design funding for Phase 3, Performing Arts Core project.
With the passage of the April 2002 Bond Funding, the Phase 1 Deferred, Phase 2 work was bid and construction was completed in April of 2003 considerably behind the original completion of December 2002.
As a matter of clarification, it was decided in November 2001 that the following general cycles of funding would be as required to complete the overall master plan and general budgets were established for these phases as follows:
Phase 3 $12,200,000
1. 700 seat Auditorium
2. Upgrade Performing Arts, life skills, and home economics
3. Renovate for move of Counseling and some Administration area
4. New Student Parking, North entry, South Drop-off upgrades
Phase 4 $5,500,000
1. Renovate old performing area for permanent location of Library (IMC)
2. Complete South Classroom Wing
3. Completion of Standby Generation and other projects originally outside of overall master plan scope of work
Phase 5 $5,100,000
1. Renovate Northeast Classroom Wing
2. Renovate Art Classrooms
3. Bus Parking Upgrades
Phase 6 $11,700,000
1. Renovate East Classroom Wing
2. Renovate West Classroom Wing
3. Renovated Locker rooms
4. Sports Fields.
Phase 3 –April 2002 Design Funding with April 2003 Construction Funding:
Per the funding in November 2001, Schematic Design was completed on the Phase 3 project and funding for completion of design was funded in the April 2002 bond approvals. During the process of completing the Phase 3 Schematic Design in April 2002, several areas of work were expanded to include spaces that needed to be done in Phase 3 rather than future phases due to efficiency of design and construction. The resulting scope of work change resulted in expanding the Phase 3 project to include work that was originally included in future phases for efficiency.
Please see attached letter and documents dated June 12, 2002 regarding scope of work and budget for Phase 3.
The Phase 3 work at the end of Design Development, October 2002, was then split into two separate bid packages to expedite the work to be completed in the summer of 2003 from the work that would be done over the next 1.5 years. The Phase 3 Interior Renovations project included work in the Benson Building, Area 4 to move the counseling department, and attendance to allow for the Main Phase 3 work. The design was completed and bid in March of 2003. The Contractor, Hickel Construction was awarded the contract and completed this work in August of 2003 to allow for work to start on the Main Phase 3 work.
The Main Phase 3 Contract including the new 700 Seat Theater, New Music Suite, Renovation of Classrooms at the North L-Shaped area, Renovation of the South Administration area, and Sitework was completed and Bid in May of 2003. Cornerstone Construction began work in June 2003 and is expected to be complete with most work by August 2004 with some final work until December 2004.
Phase 4A –April 2003 Design Funding for April 2004 Construction Funding:
Per the adjustment of phases in November of 2001, the Phase 4 design work was started in September 2003. The Schematic Design was completed with Design Committee Meetings in October and finalized with this presentation in December for final funding in April of 2004.
There were additional adjustments to the funding phases during the Phase 4 design work. In the evaluation of the current phases, it was determined that Phase 4B should incorporate the Benson Building, or SW Academic Area and Connector work ahead of the work in NE and SE Academic areas. The SE Academic Area and New Visual Arts area would become Phase 5 and the NE Academic Area and work in Gym Building would become Phase 6 work. This revision in order of completion is reflected in the enclosed master plans.
The revised funding cycles would be as follows:
Phase 3 $17,600,000
1. 700 seat Auditorium
2. Upgrade Performing Arts, life skills, and home economics
3. Renovate for move of Counseling and some Administration area
4. New Student Parking, North entry, South Drop-off upgrades
Phase 4A $7,500,000
1. Renovate old performing area for permanent location of Library (IMC)
2. Complete South Classroom Wing
3. Completion of Standby Generation and other projects originally outside of overall master plan scope of work.
Phase 4B $13,200,000
1. Renovate SW Academic Area
2. Remove existing Connector and Build New Connector from SW Academic area and Main West entry to Commons.
3. Complete New Bus Parking Upgrades
Phase 5 $8,100,000
1. Renovate NE Academic Area Classroom Wing
2. Renovate Art Classrooms
Phase 6 $7,700,000
1. Renovate South East Academic Area Classroom Wing
2. Renovated Locker rooms
3. Sports Fields.