Airport terminal building project makes progress

"Slowly but surely," Jody Bryson, airport manager, told the airport board Monday, referring to progress on the new terminal building at the Nevada Municipal Airport.

Bryson said that last Monday the metal siding on the east side of the building was installed, but it has been too windy since then to work with the large pieces of metal.

Mark Mitchell, the city's project manager for the terminal, said that the contractor should be putting up the office wall on Tuesday.

Mitchell told the board that the architect and the city had received the engineers report on the cracked concrete under the wall girders and the report said that the cracks are only cosmetic and there is no structural problem.

"The contractor will make cosmetic repairs to the cracks," he said.

Mitchell told the board that the city had received a statement from Sprouls Construction requesting payment for moving the electrical services and the HVAC condensation unit, as well as, requesting an additional nine weather days.

Monte Curtis, airport board chairman said that he had sent an e-mail to Chris Ball, the architect for the terminal, about the weather days.

"We have no more weather days," Curtis said.

"I sent an e-mail to Ball that when we gave them until June 16, there are no more rain days," he said.

"I wanted to make sure that Ball and Sprouls are on the same page as the airport board and the council," Curtis said, before the board approved paying Sprouls, without including any weather days.

"If they deposit the check, they are agreeing to the terms," Scott Buerge, board member, said.

Mitchell also told the board that the city had received a letter from Sprouls Construction requesting that the city deduct $3,880 from the total cost of the project for work that Sprouls was proposing to not do, including: tear out and repour a 4-foot-by-42-inch section of the hangar floor to repair a low spot, at a cost of $1,680; even out the interior walls at a cost of $750; reduce the amount specified for hardware by $950 and reduce the total cost by $500 for signs in the terminal and let the city make their own signs in the city's sign shop.

The board after looking at the walls and the hangar floor, decided to recommend to the architect that Sprouls leave the walls as they are and to have them remove and repour the low section of the hangar floor.

After looking over the floor, Curtis said that since the building would not be heated, any water that would get into the building would likely freeze on the floor, leaving the city liable for anyone who slips on any ice that might form and is injured.

"For $1,680 lets get it right," Scott Buerge said.