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unimppy auoui receiving only one bid, and hoping to get a better price and more bids by setting up bidding for a pared down, asphalt track. Now the process is complete, and there has been one single bid for the pared down project. That bid is slightly higher than last year’s bid for the entire project.
Appearing exasperated, school board chairman Wesley Mills (Jackson District) opined :“This was taken off our plate, we had some $200,000 left over in our budget to devote to this, plus 60,000 or so from the (Ann Spieker) Track Fund. Altogether what, we had maybe $350,000 for this. We needed another $300,000 and had it taken away, and they were going to take care of it. ... We need it back in our court.” Chappell interjected that financing the project would require a tax increase, which was not on the table at the BOS.
The board member for Stonewall-Hawthome, Ken Marlor, concurred that “We need it back in our court.... We got one bid, the BOS took it away, and they got one bid, for
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