March 2010

The Council Rock School District will save $1 million by refinancing three construction bonds from 1998 and 2003 totaling $21.9 million.

The Council Rock School District will save $1 million by refinancing three construction bonds from 1998 and 2003 totaling $21.9 million.

As West Contra Costa school officials push yet another school construction bond proposal, they need to come clean about how property tax rates are increasing far beyond expectations to cover payments for four previous voter-approved measures.

Birmingham, AL—–A well-known construction company is going out of business after defaulting on three separate school construction projects. Two of the sites are Birmingham schools; the other is a Shelby County school.  After today, other contractors will have to take over the sites to ensure the job gets done. McCrory Building Company has voluntarily defaulted on all three projects. In Shelby …

COLUMBIANA — The Thompson High School classroom addition project will be completed by a new construction company. At a special called meeting March 26, the Shelby County Board of Education approved a “takeover agreement” that will allow Blalock Construction Co. of Birmingham to finish the project.

ALMA — By accepting the low bid, the Alma School District will save more than $800,000 in interest costs for $11.87 million in re-financed 2003 construction bonds, Assistant Superintendent David Woolly said Thursday.

Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Construction is under way at the Steam Pump Village shopping center for a BASIS Charter School. BASIS schools have branches in Tucson and Scottsdale and officials want to open the campus by August, in time for the next school term.

The Shelby County Board of Education this morning approved a plan that allows Blalock Construction Co. of Birmingham to take over a classroom addition and renovation project at Thompson High School in Alabaster. The board took the action in a…

The Council Rock School District will save $1 million by refinancing three construction bonds from 1998 and 2003 totaling $21.9 million.

James McHugh Construction Co. has completed a $64 million renovation and expansion of Riverside Brookfield High School, McHugh officials announced, even adding eight classrooms to the project while keeping to the original construction budget.