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CEDAR FALLS â Contracts to build a new 305,000-square-foot high school were awarded Monday by the Board of Education, the culmination of 17 months of planning work since voters approved a bond issue to fund a large portion of the construction.
Board members voted 6-0 for the package of 22 bids totaling $85.12 million during a special meeting. The seventh board member, Jenny Leeper, abstained because her husband is an architect at Invision, which designed the school.
Another four contracts worth $4.17 million are pending further review and are expected to be awarded next month.
Additional expenses for construction management, professional fees and services, furniture and equipment, change order contingencies, and other costs bring the total estimated price tag to $112.71 million. Some of those expenses are for contracts already in place such as $5.22 million for construction management services from Story Construction of Ames and $7.06 million for architectural fees and servic