USD 257 board members decided several purchases Monday evening.
Four vendors were identified to provide services and materials during construction of the building trades house. DC Service, owned by Ray Shannon, will do consultation and installation of electrical systems for $40 an hour; Paul Sinclair Plumbing and Heating will provide materials and labor for plumbing for $6,220; Dale’s Sheet Metal will provide and install heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems for $4,984. Diebolt Lumber, LaHarpe, had the bid for construction materials at $27,017.08. Each bid was the lower of two.
Copy Products’ bid of $17,838 for lease of eight new copy machines won out over four others for new machines and a fifth for refurbished machines. The district also will pay $91.20 per copier for large capacity paper supply trays.
Martin Roofing Co., Wichita, had the lower bid at $7,562 to replace gutters and downspouts on the science building, across Cottonwood Street from the high school.
Board members also changed wording having to do with vocational goals and objectives for students. Eliminated was reference to counselors identifying “limitations” and “alternate courses of action.” The state Office of Civil Rights objected to the phrases, proposing the language was “limiting and restrictive.”
Following a short executive session, board members granted Barbara Sherrill, counselor at Jefferson Elementary School, a year’s leave of absence and hired Susie Greve, formerly on district staff, to fill in.
Meeting as Bowlus Fine Arts Center trustees, the board approved the Bowlus budget for 2010-11, which was reviewed Aug. 23.
The operations budget calls for expenditures of $336,002.05, or nearly $11,000 less than was spent last school year. Among income is a payment of $116,857 from the district for use of classrooms and performance areas. That is nearly $10,000 less than the district paid last year, the reduction resulting from the shift of vocal and instrumental music to the middle school.
BOE decides bids
