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Harris-Lake Park School Board Awards Bids For New Elementary

July 25, 2024 Steve Schwaller

(Lake Park)– The Harris-Lake Park School Board this (Thurs.) afternoon awarded bids for the new Elementary school to be constructed adjacent to the Middle School-High School facility. The low base bid of a little more than $15 million was awarded to Hoogendoorn Construction of Canton, South Dakota. Three bids were received. Superintendent Gary Richardson says HVAC equipment, grading for a bus barn, and some other add-ons bump the grand total up to a little more than the $18.6 million in bonding that was approved…

“The bids came in right about what we thought at 18.6 when you included $300,000 for the playground and $300,000 for upgrades at the middle school-high school auditorium. The G.O. Bond was approved at 18.6 million and the budget that the board approved was $18.7.3 so almost $130,000 the board approved out of our Capital Projects Budget which we can handle.”

Given the budget, the board opted NOT to include a practice track and practice football field.

A public hearing on a proposal to issue $1.6 million in revenue bonds that would be used for renovations at the middle school-high school will be held at the board’s August 6th meeting.

Richardson says sitework for the new elementary is scheduled to start very soon…

“We’ll be working with Hoogendoorn to start the process and see some digging and potentially do a little value engineering with them as we move forward. But hopefully by the first of September we’re seeing some digging going on here and we’ll have a groundbreaking on August 19th prior to the board meeting as well. So we’re excited and looking forward to all of the activity.”

Richardson says the substantial completion date for the new elementary has been pushed back to March, 2026 due to the recent flooding.

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