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PSS vows to complete decade-long MHS gym
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Posted on Jun 23 1999
The Public School System has vowed to finally complete this year the Marianas High School gymnasium project, which began almost a decade ago but had been disrupted several times by funding problems and contract conflicts.
Christopher Fryling, the agency’s facilities specialist, said PSS will award on Friday the contract for the cladding of the steel structure, which remains idle after it was built more than two years ago by B&R Construction.
Fryling said PSS is awaiting the US Department of Interior’s action on the bidding proposal for the final construction work.
“We expect construction to be completed in four to five months,” Fryling said.
Fryling said the $2 million construction project would be financed through federal money and local matching funds, which would come from the $15.6 million bond recently sold by PSS
The gym project was conceptualized in 1991. A Japanese company had donated $1 million to start it, but due to different problems, including design changes and termination of the contractors’ services, the project remained in limbo.
Fryling said the scope of work on the gym project has been reduced, and the architectural plan has been redesigned, but the basic plan has been kept.
