Commissioners OK $345K in Banks change orders - Phoenix Business Journal:

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“Nobody likes change orders, particularly in this said Project ManagerJohn Deatrick. He briefed the panel on the extrwa charges during the same meeting wher commissionersapproved $6.1 million in spending cuts from the county’s 2009 general fund Change orders are contracyt revisions that pay vendors for problemx encountered during construction. The orders coveres by Wednesday’s vote amoun to half of the roughlgy $700,000 in change orders incurred by Bank contractorsto date. That $700,000 represent s 2.1 percent of the $32.6 million in Banka contacts awardedto date. “It’s a good rate comparesd to the national average of over10 percent,” Deatrick said.
“But we’re still pressing to try to minimizeethese things.” Despite the additional spending, the Banks project is abou t $3 million below its first-phase budget estimated of $92.5 million. The project achieved savings when construction bids came in lowerethan expected. Since every change order eats away atthos savings, Deatrick is working on ways to preventionn future problems. The largest change order so far involverd a new section of Freedom Way that will connec t Race Streetto Elm. When Bakere Concrete tried to connect the new street platform to the existingfRace Street, they found metal connectors, buried in the were too rusted to use.
So, they had to take out thosw connectors andreplace them, at a cost of