PORT ORCHARD — Kitsap County will replace most of the remaining roof on its leaking Port Orchard courthouse this fall and winter after commissioners approved a $2.98 million contract with Wayne’s Roofing on Oct. 26.
The Sumner-based contractor’s bid of $2,727,695, plus $253,675.64 in sales tax, was the lowest of four. Timothy Gross, senior engineering manager for the county’s Capital Facilities division, said the engineer’s estimate was roughly $4.7 million.
Phase 2 covers about 56,000 square feet of roofing over most of the courthouse and parts of the jail, along with flashing, parapet caps and drains. Phase 1, already finished, replaced roofing over the center of the jail and the sheriff’s office. It also stripped the original 1935 courthouse’s asphalt shingles and replaced them with a standing-seam metal roof.
After complaints about air quality and noise during the first phase, the county rewrote the second phase so all work is done cold, with no torches and with low-VOC adhesives, Gross said. The contractor must coordinate with the courts so crews are not working over Superior Court courtrooms while they are in session.
Work will begin once the contract is signed. Gross said crews can keep working in the rain by laying temporary roofing. The contract calls for substantial completion within 80 working days and charges $250 for each working day beyond that.
Gross said the new roof should stop the leaks. Commission Chair Oran Root said years of deferred maintenance had reached a point where it “has to be dealt with no matter what that pain looks like,” and invited residents to tour offices where water catchers send leaks out through hoses.
“Absolutely ridiculous. It’s uncalled for,” Root said.
Commissioner Christine Rolfes said the low bid was “good news for all of our other projects” at the courthouse campus. Gross said the county saved money by structuring the project differently from the first phase.
The project was originally planned for 2027. A third-quarter budget amendment approved the same day moves $1.5 million in real estate excise tax money to the capital facilities fund so the work can proceed now.
In related business, commissioners formally closed out the county’s $7.18 million jail HVAC replacement contract. Nick Martin, assistant director of Public Works for capital facilities, said the project, built in 2023 and 2024, installed new boilers, pumps, fans and heat recovery units at the jail.
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