Friday's Internet Edition, September 10, 2010.
Renegar: Complaints About Bids Delay Process
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Davie County High School is the name the Board of Education voted for unanimously at their meeting Monday night. Terry Renegar, board chair, said it was simply a formality, because of a policy, that a name had to be chosen. There was never any doubt what the name would be, he said.
But the date students will be able to begin using the building could be four months later than expected.
The BOE had hoped the school, for which construction has not yet begun, would be complete by Aug. 1, 2011, but they set an alternate completion date of Dec. 1.
One of the biggest reasons is due to the delay caused after complaints filed about the bid process for the civil engineer and architect, he said.
The BOE had to re-advertise and wait to receive new bids, with the end result that the same entities that had been hired initially were ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.