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Lewis Central board accepts $700,000 donation for field-house addition; approves design and contractor awards
Summary
The Lewis Central Comm School District board unanimously accepted a $700,000 gift from John and Jean Marshall to fund a field-house addition, approved design services for the athletic-building renovation and awarded construction contracts for multiple projects, while hearing curriculum and finance updates and discussing state property-tax proposals.
The Lewis Central Comm School District board on Dec. 15 unanimously accepted a $700,000 gift from John and Jean Marshall to fund a field-house addition to the district athletic building and approved related design and construction steps.
The board adopted a resolution accepting the stock gift and voted to authorize a professional-services agreement with BCDBM for $171,205 to design the athletic-building renovation and the field-house addition. The board also awarded the Titan Hill exterior-envelope project to Sevener Construction for $559,500 and approved Mikko Henney as the construction manager at risk for the middle-school renovation; all votes were unanimous.
Why it matters: The donation covers about half of the estimated cost for the proposed pre-engineered addition and shifts the district from solely relying on bond proceeds for immediate facility needs. Superintendent (speaker 7) said the addition would add wrestling mats, expanded locker rooms and space for sports-performance and middle-school physical-education activities, and that the district would need to identify roughly $400,000–$500,000 more to…
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