The La Porte ISD Board of Trustees will hear a report on the due diligence process for the proposed new Bayshore Elementary School site during its Feb. 10 meeting.

The Board will receive an update on the necessary assessments being completed toward purchase of the 20-acre site, which is located at the corner of McCabe Road and State Highway 146.  Included in the assessments are location and area surveys, topographical surveys and drainage, geotechnical coring, phase 1 environmental study, traffic study, title search and policy, and discussions with city, county and state agencies.

After the due diligence process is completed, the Board will be able to consider scheduling the closing on the property.  PBK Architects, which is providing architectural services, and Tellepsen Builders, the construction manager at-risk, are targeting the Feb. 24 meeting to present to the Board the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) for construction of the new Bayshore.

"At this time, our Bayshore children are displaced from a permanent home and are attending school on five different campuses," said LPISD Superintendent Lloyd Graham.  "Therefore, we are moving ahead with assessments on the proposed new site and not delaying the decision.  Our hope is that, once the assessments are completed, we can finalize the purchase and move forward with construction so that our students will have their own school again in January 2010."

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Board Room of the LPISD Administration Building, 1002 San Jacinto.