Construction

options will be on the minds of Fayette

County Board of Education members when they convene Thursday.

A special called

meeting is set for Thursday at 1:30 p.m. to formally issue $65 million

in bonds for school construction.

Following that

action, the group will have a workshop meeting to discuss how it wants

to manage the spending of that money.

During Monday's

regular board meeting, staff presented the board with a set of definitions

of the various options for a construction manager.

The group must

decide whether to hire a construction manager, an at-risk construction

manager, an agency construction manager, a program manager, project manager,

architect/engineer design team or an architectural representative.

In the past,

facilities director Mike Satterfield has overseen construction projects

without assistance, but consensus of the board is that the system has

grown too large for that.

In other action

Monday, the board went into executive session to discuss a land purchase,

then reconvened and voted 4-1, with Janet Smola opposed, to buy a lot

next to East Fayette Elementary School for $15,000.

Board members

were concerned the land might be used for some purpose that would increase

traffic and congestion around the school, said Melinda Berry-Dreisbach,

public information specialist.