The Bartlesville School Board awarded bids for work at the district’s two middle Schools and bids for three Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics labs during its meeting Monday night.  Architect, Scott Ambler detailed the bids and broke the amounts for each bid down into what portions of the work would be paid for by bond dollars and what portions would be paid for by dollars that come through the Bartlesville Education Authority’s lease-purchase arrangement.

7 million, 707 thousand, 976 dollars-worth of bids for work at Central will come from bond funds and 3 million, 51 thousand, 916 dollars-worth will come from the Bartlesville Education Authority.  Those renovations will be accomplished during the 2016 school year while the Central students occupy the current Madison Middle School.   Contractors will work this summer to make the Mid-High ready to accommodate the 6th through 8th grade students from Madison that will move into that building.  Bids for the renovations of what will become the new Madison came in at 1 million, 324 thousand, 301 dollars.  The board also approved bids for the three STEM labs.

Teachers in the three buildings have been working of the last several weeks to pack their classroom supplies so that items could be moved as soon as possible after classes are over this school year – particularly items at Central that will go to other buildings because of the tight one-year time frame to renovate that building and have it ready for students in the fall of 2016.