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Galena board awards final bids for $3.16 million track and field project and OKs scoreboard purchase
Summary
The Galena City School District board approved the final contractors for the track and field project (bid package 3), accepted a district share of $57,765 for a water-main relocation, and authorized a video scoreboard purchase not to exceed $224,895. The overall project remains roughly $58,000 above the board's earlier $3.1 million allocation; staff said they will continue value engineering.
Speaker 1, an unidentified district official, told the Galena City School District Board that bids for the final package of the district's track and field project were opened Feb. 12 and recommended several awards and the rejection of two alternates.
"I am recommending that you do not approve that that bid alternate," Speaker 1 said, describing a proposed reduction of a 10-foot walking path to 6 feet that would save about $7,400, and a $15,500 increase to change galvanized fencing to black chain-link that the administration recommended rejecting.
The board voted to approve the set of recommended awards for bid package 3, which staff reported…
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