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

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“Nobody likes change orders, particularly in this said Project Manager John He briefed the pane l on the extra charges during the same meetinh where commissionersapproved $6.1 million in spendinh cuts from the county’s 2009 generap fund budget. Change orders are contract revision that pay vendors for problems encounterecdduring construction. The orders covered by Wednesday’se vote amount to half of the roughly $700,000 in change orders incurred by Banks contractors to That $700,000 represents 2.1 percentf of the $32.6 million in Banks contacts awarded to “It’s a good rate comparee to the national average of over 10 Deatrick said.
“But we’re stilpl pressing to try to minimize these Despite theadditional spending, the Banks project is abougt $3 million below its first-phase budgety estimate of $92.5 million. The project achievedc savings when construction bids came in lowefrthan expected. Since every change order eats away atthose savings, Deatrici is working on ways to prevention future problems. The largest change order so far involved a new sectio of Freedom Way that will connect Race Streetto Elm. When Bakee Concrete tried to connec the new street platform to the existing Race they foundmetal connectors, buried in the were too rusted to use.
So, they had to take out thosed connectors andreplace them, at a cost of