The Missouri State University Board of Governors is scheduled to meet today to vote on development actions related to its decades-old academic building Ellis Hall and newly built Davis-Harrington Welcome Center.
The board meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. at MSU’s Springfield campus.
Ellis Hall
The MSU governors will vote on a resolution to hire a St. Louis consultant to assist with the renovation of Ellis Hall, according to today’s
board agenda.
If approved, MSU would pay Patterhn Ives LLC $630,000, as well as reimbursable expenses and the option for another $60,000.
The choice of Patterhn Ives came after the university issued requests for qualification and received 13 responses. A selection committee comprising faculty, students and administrators reviewed the applicants and ultimately chose the St. Louis firm.
MSU
previously has reported plans to spend $7.6 million to make repairs and renovations to the 1959-built academic building, which serves as the university’s music and fine arts facility.
Construction is scheduled to begin next summer and wrap up in fall 2017, according to the agenda.
Welcome Center
The university’s governing board also is slated to vote on whether to approve a $105,555 base bid submitted by Kenmar Construction Inc. for the Phase II branding of the Welcome Center, which opened this fall.
The project, which has a $200,000 budget, calls on the Springfield contractor to complete its work no later than March 31, 2016.
The remaining branding work comprises installation of five pivoting panels and one fixed panel.
The Welcome Center, which had a project budget of $6.1 million, included a lobby, offices, conference room and 100-seat auditorium built by Wright Construction Services Inc., according to
MissouriState.edu.
