How Secret is Muscle Shoals High's New Turf Contract?
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Just how much of a secret is the Muscle Shoals High athletics improvement plan? It depends on whom one asks.
After mentioning the new stadium Astro Turf, readers have popped up with rumors/facts/questions/answers/complaints about what's actually going on with the Muscle Shoals School System. While the new athletic plan has been publicized elsewhere, most have been kept in the dark in Muscle Shoals.
There will be more than new turf? We're were going with a positive answer for that, but are waiting for word from a system source. There's to be a baseball field or two? Hallelujah! Wait, is that just wishful thinking? The athletic department has interviewed two baseball coaches from out of state to replace the belligerent Beck? More wishful thinking?
First, the cost of the new Astro Turf:
While Johnson Construction (this company had the original contract, meaning any warranty should have been applied) was awarded the contract, one source has told us that final expenses were well above the 600K budget initially proposed by the board.
One local sports pundit has suggested the system doesn't want to mention paying off Blake Beck's contract. Really? He doesn't have tenure and he wouldn't be the first baseball coach terminated by the school. They should owe him very little, if anything. We understand the Parks & Rec Dept. will help him pack.
It's quite a mystery, isn't it? Especially since still another insider has told us none of this was in the board's minutes...you know, an actual public vote on turf replacement or any other additions. We're currently awaiting still another missing piece of information on this new complex, so stay tuned...
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my concern is why are you hiring Johnson Contractor's when they are not known for this type of specialty field. Shouldn't you get estimates from people who put the turf on for colleges and make a known living? I am afraid hiring someone who does not qualify in this area will cost you more than $600,000. Just because you're a general contractor does not mean you are specialized in all areas. Look at Sheffield for example they hired a contractor that did not know what he was doing and came back and asked for more money to finish the roads to that imagery thing we will never get. It is 100 percent Sheffield's fault for hiring the contractor that underbid the estimate and didn't have legal binding with the contractor to make the contractor pay for it if it were to cost more. Do not be an example like Sheffield. Get more estimates from certified people.
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my concern is why are you hiring Johnson Contractor's when they are not known for this type of specialty field. Shouldn't you get estimates from people who put the turf on for colleges and make a known living? I am afraid hiring someone who does not qualify in this area will cost you more than $600,000. Just because you're a general contractor does not mean you are specialized in all areas. Look at Sheffield for example they hired a contractor that did not know what he was doing and came back and asked for more money to finish the roads to that imagery thing we will never get. It is 100 percent Sheffield's fault for hiring the contractor that underbid the estimate and didn't have legal binding with the contractor to make the contractor pay for it if it were to cost more. Do not be an example like Sheffield. Get more estimates from certified people.
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