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Local News - Local News - August 16, 2012
Spokane Public Schools mulls adding $21.4 million in construction projects
Construction-cost savings would fund two additions with $21.4 million value

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

The big Ferris High School modernization and replacement project, pictured above, is one of Spokane Public Schools' projects that's coming in below budget. Currently, that project's cost is estimated at $59 million, about $12 million below projections.
The big Ferris High School modernization and replacement project, pictured above, is one of Spokane Public Schools' projects that's coming in below budget. Currently, that project's cost is estimated at $59 million, about $12 million below projections.
-Staff photo by Kim Crompton
Spokane Public Schools says the district is on track for bond-funded projects to come in $47.9 million below budget, and it hopes to use $21.4 million of that savings to do two projects it hadn't expected to fund with the 2009 bond measure.

The new projects would include a $16 million classroom addition at North Central High School and a $9.4 million addition at Mullan Road Elementary School that would be infused with $5.4 million of the savings, says Mark Anderson, the district's...


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