Commissioners OK $345K in Banks change orders - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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“Nobody likes change particularly in this said Project Manager John He briefed the panel on the extra chargew during the same meeting where commissionersapproved $6.1 millionm in spending cuts from the county’xs 2009 general fund budget. Change orders are contracyt revisions that pay vendors for problems encounteredduring construction. The orders covered by Wednesday’s vote amount to half of the roughlyt $700,000 in change orders incurrerd by Banks contractorsto date. That $700,00 represents 2.1 percent of the $32.76 million in Banks contactsw awardedto date. “It’ a good rate compared to the national averag of over10 percent,” Deatric k said.
“But we’re still pressing to try to minimizethesse things.” Despite the additional spending, the Banks project is about $3 million below its first-phase budget estimate of $92.t5 million. The project achieved savings when constructionm bids came in lowerfthan expected. Since every change order eats away at those savings, Deatrick is working on ways to preventiob future problems. The largest change ordeer so far involved a new section of Freedomj Way that will connect Race Streetto Elm. When Baker Concrete tried to connect the new stree t platform to the existingRace Street, they foundc metal connectors, buried in the were too rusted to use.
So, they had to take out thoses connectors andreplace them, at a cost of