Clarendon College has settled its lawsuit against Reynosa Construction of Amarillo last week, according to information presented at Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting.
CC had sued the contractor of the college’s newest residence hall last August, claiming that Reynosa performed faulty and defective work and “failed to construct the building specified in the contract in accordance with the plans, specifications, and contract documents.”
CC President Myles Shelton said, under the terms of the settlement, Reynosa’s bonding company will pay the college $368,000 of which $93,000 is retainage from construction that will come back to the college. The remaining $275,000 will go toward repairing the building.
“It should be sufficient to repair the EIFS around the new dormitory and to resolve issues with the showers and pay all the legal bills,” Shelton said.
EIFS is a multi-layered synthetic stucco-like material covering the trim and columns of Regents Hall.
Shelton said Quality Ceramic of Amarillo is already working on the defective shower stalls, and Shadle Construction of Clarendon will start this week to make drywall repairs related to the showers.
Bids for the work to repair the defective EIFS are due next week, and that work will be done this summer.
“We’re excited to get this issue behind us,” Shelton said.
In other college business, regents approved an RFP from AMA•TechTel Communications to provide Internet service to the college and its satellite campus in Pampa.
Shelton said CC’s current Internet service, which is routed through the CC Pampa Center, is at capacity and is experiencing a lot of degradation during peak times of usage.
AMA’s proposal will supply much-needed bandwidth inside and outside the classrooms and will include installation of separate wireless “pipes” to the Internet from the Clarendon and Pampa campuses. The two campuses will also be tied together via a third connection, which will provide a back-up route to the Internet in case one of the main connections is down.
The new Internet connections will be installed between the spring semester and the first summer session. A separate RFP, which is due next month, will connect resident hall rooms to the Internet.
Regents extended the college district’s depository bid with Herring Bank for two years.
The board also voted in favor of rehiring the faculty for the 2005-2006 school year. Contracts were offered to Charla Crump, Gene Denney, Pam Denney, Doak Elledge, Russell Estlack, Scarlet Estlack, Cynthia Ewing, Skip Frazier, Cory Hall, Jan Haynes, Rusty Kennedy, Vickie Liles, Jimidene Murphey, Darryl Perryman, Jonea Rima, Chad Smith, Tony Starnes, DeWayne Stephens, Leslie Stoker, Linda Thompson, Michael Tibbets, John Treichel, Laban Tubbs, Frank Vance, Larry Wiginton, and Ken Wilson.
Contracts were also offered to Ashley Faulkner, Bill Huey, Brian Kuhnert, Sharron Rust, and Gay Tibbets
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