Sullivan West holds
pre-bid meeting for contractors

By TOM KANE

JEFFERSONVILLE — At the April 24 meeting of the Sullivan West board of education, it was announced that the board would hold a pre-bid meeting on May 2 for contractors who wish to bid for construction of the new high school.

Over 45 contractors have expressed interest in the project, said school superintendent Michael Johndrow.

Numerous staff persons from the architects, the Hillier Group, and the Turner Company, the construction managers, will be present to answer contractors’ questions.

Groundbreaking will be held in a few weeks.

“Bids will be opened on May 17 at 3:30 p.m., before the board meeting which will be held later that evening,” Johndrow said.

Awarding of bids will be made on May 24, he said. Construction is expected to begin immediately.

In other board business, the board accepted the resignation of Sullivan West at Jeffersonville elementary school principal James Evans effective April 27.

“Mr. Evans decided that the job entailed a little too much,” Johndrow said. Evans had retired last year from a school in New Jersey before coming here.

Former Jeffersonville-Youngsville superintendent Albert Larson will serve as interim principal in the elementary school.

The board unanimously approved the $1,080,062 BOCES administration budget for next year. They also cast district votes in county-wide voting to approve three-year terms on the BOCES board for Herbert Bauernfeind, Eugene Ganz and Bernard Olff.