School board appreciation night: Colfax board approves construction bid documents

The Colfax School board approved 1,775 pages of bid documents Monday night for a year-and-a-half of upcoming construction, paid for by the $18.9 million bond passed last February.

The documents, which add up to an estimate of $14,687,000, were presented by district architects Amy Minden-Browne and Ned Warnick.

Minden-Browne, project manager, had sent board members a copy of the documents last Friday to look over, including two sets of drawings, project specifications and a 58-page constructibility review – conducted by a third-party set of engineers and construction managers who spent a week a...