School projects out for bids again

Adjustments and a new time frame are taking effect for the Colfax School District’s security and capital improvement project after initial bids came back over estimates last month.

Colfax Superintendent Michael Morgan met with the project’s architect, Laurence Rose of Design West, in Pullman July 9 to finalize plans for what will be a re-bidding process.

In June, the initial bids for the project came in at $288,000 and $293,000. Voters earlier this year approved a $250,000 special levy to fund the project.

Morgan said that a key reason for the higher than expected numbers was that the initial...