Pleasanton school trustees will decide Thursday night whether the district can skip competitive bidding to fix flood damage inside the main gym building at Amador Valley High School, where rain poured into the locker room during a roof replacement last month.
The Pleasanton Unified School District board meets at 6 p.m. Nov. 12 at the district office, 5758 West Las Positas Blvd., and the meeting will be livestreamed, the Pleasanton Weekly reported.
What happened at Building N
Crews started tearing off the old roof of Building N, home to the big gym and its locker room, in late August, and covered the open roof with temporary rain protection while they repaired dry rot. That cover did not hold on Oct. 22, according to the Weekly's account of the staff report.
Water reached the locker room, teachers' offices and storage rooms while school was in session, and staff described the flooding as a potential safety hazard for students, employees and contractors.
The resolution before the board would let PUSD treat the cleanup as emergency work under the state's Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act.
Staff wrote that the locker room's water-damaged roof, walls, floors, doors and wiring have to be repaired "in order to avoid danger to health and damage to property," and that the situation "will not permit a delay" for a bid process, the Weekly reported.
The immediate goal is to stabilize the building and reopen the affected spaces, with more assessment needed before the district settles on a longer-term plan for the locker room, according to the report.
