Randy Fischer

Randy Fischer (D)

Randy Fischer (D)

Chair of the Organizing committee is Randy Fischer of Dofasco Inc.

Jodie Mahony, DEl Dorado; Charles Knox of Lonoke, assistant director of the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators; Dave Floyd, interim director of facilities at the state Department of Education; Scott Copas of Little Rock, chairman of the task force to the facilities committee; and Randall Fischer, program manager for the facilities consultants, DeJong Inc. of Dublin, Ohio.

Despite complaints from Gooden and other superintendents about excessive cost estimates, Randall Fischer, the Arkansas program director working for DeJong, noted that the consultants also are finding things to add to the estimate.
...
"Pulaski County was in here yesterday and they said it was $100 million short," Fischer said.Henderson said that the consultant's $157 million estimate to fix Pulaski County school buildings is less than the $240 million estimate in a study the district did in 2000.He said the earlier study recommended demolishing existing elementary schools and building new ones.The DeJong study recommends, instead, fixing existing schools.
...
Fischer said the consultants have nothing to hide and that there must have been a communication breakdown.He said that districts can't have access to the consultants' database because that is private software.But he said any information in the data about the assessment is public and available to districts.

Fischer told Gooden that he'll make any corrections to the Fort Smith assessment for which a document can be provided.
...
But Fischer said other things such as $1 million listed for piping replacement in one school wouldn't necessarily be changed.
...
"If it is your word against ours, then we're probably not going to change that," Fischer said.
...
"We think it'll cost pretty darn close to what the assessment says it is," Fischer said.