During Wednesday night’s West Central Valley School District Board of Directors meeting, two of the contractors that helped build the district’s new athletic complex were in attendance to give an update on the status of the football field and track, which have had to endure significant issues in recent months.

Numerous contractors met with district officials on Tuesday morning as well, and Kevin Butts of Weitz Construction and Matt Carlisle of Confluence Architecture say that they are working with all parties involved to find a solution to the problem.

But with surveying data not supposed to be available until the end of next week, Superintendent Dr. David Arnold says he believes the whole process is taking too long.

“To me, they’re going way too slow.  I’m very frustrated with them–they know that full well.  In our meeting I was not kind.  You know, I’ve got our attorneys involved, and I just think they’re taking too much time.  There are things… that is why I mentioned (Wednesday), ‘why don’t you get the cameras up the drains now, why would you wait?’.  I don’t understand why they’re waiting.”

With a possibly frozen drainage system being one of the conceivable sources of the heaving and divoting problems at the complex, Dr. Arnold says the use of cameras could be used now to either rule that possibility in or out.

Ultimately, Dr. Arnold says the district just wants to get to a point where they are able to use the product they paid for.

“These are big issues.  You know, we bought a product and we’re not getting that product.  It is under warranty, so fix it and make it a good fix.  But don’t sit there and twiddle your thumbs, and to me, that is what they’re doing.”

Dr. Arnold says he continues to have communication with Hellas Corporation, who was responsible for soil testing before the laying of the field and track. Arnold says Hellas is willing to come up from Texas with their own men to work on some of the complex’s issues whenever design contractors have found the root of the problems.