Dateline: April 28, 2005
CC settles lawsuit with Reynosa Construction
By
Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise
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.