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August 12, 2025 — Meeting Transcript
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We're going to help drive the priorities to establish some confidence when it comes to the budget and the schedule. Paragon already has some great work here that we can look at for the master facility plan, but specifically with your elementary schools, you know, doing some feasibility studies and some cost models to give your board the information they need to make some decisions and get your community involved there. With a North Star being your budget, as the RFP says, maybe $100 million, we'll use that as our guiding light and make sure we're a good steward of the district funds. This will be a transparent process. We make recommendations to the board and we'll also work to keep the team on track. We're ready to roll up our sleeves and get involved in this process. Getting with design firms, programming sketches to develop some pricing on these projects and really set up these collaboration meetings to get going. Some examples of projects that S.M. Wilson has completed that are very similar to Clayton include Ledoux, Pattonville, Northwest, Jeff City, and Columbia. To highlight some wins that we bring from Ladue, for instance, is really getting creative and working on temporary classrooms inside their buildings to help move the students around to help unlock areas for renovations. This saved the district millions of dollars avoiding temporary trailers. The other piece is the phasing was critical for those projects, so we worked with Perkins and Will to get that memorialized into the bidding documents.