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Park City School District Approves $100K Contract to Develop Master Plan

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The Park City School Board approved a $100,000 contract with a consulting firm to roll out the district master plan. It will be a phased endeavor with a three-to-five-year timeline.

 

Park City School District stakeholders have worked for several years to build a strategic and master planning road map that outlines three priorities: Moving the 9th grade back into the high school requires an expansion to accommodate some 400 students; the sixth and seventh grade Ecker Hill Middle School would absorb 8th grade turning that facility into a 6th through 8th-grade school, requiring a new wing. And, finally, expanding the district's four elementary schools to provide universal pre-K.

 

Upon Master Plan completion, the Bond Architect MHTN was hired to lay out the project's phasing options. In their last meeting, the school board unanimously approved hiring the firm MOCA Systems, Inc. as the project manager. Park City School District Business Administrator Todd Hauber explained the next steps.   

 

"We need to take now what MHTN had presented to the board back in spring and into the summer, which was several options,” Hauber said. “I think there were three total options that had multiple phasing so that we can make sure we have the schools looking the way the community wants them, and we can also start to layout the financing strategy. So, Moca, for the first part, will walk us through those conversations. Then their primary role is, once we have those projects identified under those options and phasing, they will then be the taskmaster if you will and work with us to get an architect on board and get a general contractor on board and execute those projects under budget."

 

Hauber said they'll continue to explore all financing options such as general obligation bonds and lease revenue bonds to finance the $150 to $200 million projects.

 

"We'll spend the latter end of winter here into spring to get those conversations underway, and then come spring into summer, we will be looking to put the contracts out for architects and general contractors."

 

PC CAPS students presented the school board with a wide-reaching environmental sustainability plan which includes energy, waste, water, land, air quality and transportation. Hauber said they asked MHTN last year to provide cost estimates to bring new buildings up to sustainability targets set by the city's 2030 goals.

 

"So, I think on one level, it's very ambitious to accomplish all of the recommendations that show up on the work that they've done,” Hauber said. “As a district, we've made forays into different parts of different recommendations they've had. So back in 2017, when we were working on a master plan at that time, we had gone out and done geothermal testing at all of the district's properties just to see if that strategy could play out at any of the schools that we currently have. But it'll be exciting to see which ones come together."

 

Hauber said the school board plans to begin soliciting public input on the master plan building projects' phasing and financing. Meeting dates have not been set as of this report. A link to the MOCA contract can be found here.

KPCW reporter Carolyn Murray covers Summit and Wasatch County School Districts. She also reports on wildlife and environmental stories, along with breaking news. Carolyn has been in town since the mid ‘80s and raised two daughters in Park City.
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