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Show iK''y - ' v ' DAVC CONSTRUCTION STARTING Construction is due to get under way for a 34,000-square foot-plus facility that will house the Davis Area Vocational Center's auto and diesel classes as well as include pre- liminary construction f0rso. business class areas. It'll be b ' adjacent to the existing twofe' ings on the Kaysville campus By TOM BUSSELBERG KAYSVILLE -- The dirt should be flying any time on the Davis Area Vocational Center site, as its new $1 .5 million mil-lion addition takes shape. A LOW bid of $1,442,000 has been received for the 32,400 square foot facility that will house the auto and diesel training areas. Submitted by Layton Construction Co. of Salt Lake City, the project has a contract completion allowance allo-wance of mid-November, 1983, but contractors hope to have the project completed by school's start next year, Center Cen-ter Director Jack Shell says. To be constructed as part of a planned three-phase development, de-velopment, the facility will cover 32,400 square feet on the main level, including instruction instruc-tion areas in both a classroom and hands-on setting with appropriate equipment available. avail-able. SEVENTEEN bids were received re-ceived for the project that Architects Swenson, Smith Crane of Salt Lake City estimated esti-mated would cost $1,640,000, with a high bid coming in at just about $100,000 over that. In addition to the main level, a mezzanine area will be "roughed in" with hoped for completion concurrent with the rest of the facility although that estimated $265,000 extra' will have to be appropriated by the 1983 Legislature, Mr. Shell says. THAT WOULD add 10,480 square feet and provide space for some of the many business-related business-related class offerings. As it looks now, though, unless un-less a rumored special session of the Legislature prompts some changes, the Vocational Center may not receive funding fund-ing priority from the State Building Board. That state-operated state-operated body oversees construction con-struction of state projects and determines a list of project priorities from across the state. Those are then generally acted upon by the Legislature in their January session. AT LAST weekend, though, the DAVC was not listed for the second phase for the 1983-84 1983-84 fiscal year, or starting next July 1, Mr. Shell explains, adding that $1 million is included in-cluded in tentative funding for the following fiscal year. That's not enough for the planned additional phases, though, he emphasizes, noting staff and members of the vocational voca-tional center board will be "fighting" or lobbying come January for inclusion among funded projects for the coming fiscal year. 1 IF A $50 million bond still in the tentative stages" goes through could provide up to Sl.J - s lion, he adds, indicating '' goes through there's noi comes near what we neti Plans call for $3.7 be sought for additional t ing that would include jj" for student services and; nistration as well as ares welding and drafting audi tronics, built in twoaddm. phases as pictured above. |