Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
COLUMBUS JUNCTION The low bid for a previously approved asbestos abatement project for the Columbus School District’s secondary building campus will mean nearly $17,600 in savings, the school board learned Monday.
District business manager Neil Mills said Shive-Hattery Associates, Cedar Rapids, which is serving as the engineering consultant for the project, had reported receiving four bids for the summer project.
Iowa-Illinois Taylor Insulation, Inc, Davenport, had submitted a low bid of $37,403. The construction budget had been set at $55,000 and approved in May by the board.
According to Shive-Hattery’s bid tabulation, asbestos will be abated from pipe fittings and insulation, wall gaskets, floor tile and mastic. New pipe insulation also will be installed.
Woodward and Ruther laid out five similar defenses to the claim. Should this defendant be at fault . said fault should be compared with that of the plaintiff and/or other parties, both defense attorneys said in their respective motions.
The attorneys were referencing Iowa Code 688, which requires judges to consider how at fault parties in the case are in comparison to each other.
In a case where the plaintiff does bear some fault, the amount of damages incurred by the plaintiff are to be reduced in accordance with the amount of fault the plaintiff bears.
In criminal cases, the jury is not allowed to know the penalties a defendant would face if convicted. However, in a civil case, it is the jury that decides what a defendant would have to pay.
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Burlington School District partners with Eagle View Community Health System to launch school-based clinic at BHS
The clinic, set to open in time for summer school, will be available to all Burlington students as well as members of their households.
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Starting this summer, Burlington High School students no longer will have to leave the building for most health appointments.
Henderson County, Illinois-based Eagle View Community Health System is partnering with the Burlington School District to operate a school-based clinic at the high school that could open as early as next month. It s important to consider we start this summer, Superintendent Pat Coen said. When you look at BHS, there are more people under that roof every day than 77.5% of the towns in Iowa, so there s going to be plenty of action, so we start now, work the bugs out, it s smaller, and then we re ready to hit the ground w
Columbus School Board selects Burlington firm for infrastructure improvements
Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
COLUMBUS JUNCTION A Burlington consulting firm has been given the job of seeking bids for several proposed Columbus School District building infrastructure improvement projects, after submitting a proposal cutting the estimates submitted earlier by another consulting firm by nearly $200,000.
The school board agreed during its regular monthly meeting Monday to accept the proposal from Klingner and Associates, after comparing the estimates in that package to estimates provided last month by Shive-Hattery Associates, Cedar Rapids.
At last month’s meeting, the board tentatively agreed to direct Shive-Hattery to seek bids for replacing a chiller at the Roundy Elementary building and for cooling and dehumidifying the middle school gym and the auditorium.
Bob Saar
for The Hawk Eye
Des Moines County supervisors ended their Tuesday meeting with department heads by discussing the feasibility of removing the basement-entry restriction that has been in place at the courthouse since last year.
The courthouse front doors were closed last March to entry from Main Street.
Supervisor Jim Cary led off the discussion by saying the county should follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines in re-opening the lobby.
Courthouse maintenance supervisor Rodney Bliesener said people have been inquiring about re-opening the lobby and asked those attending the meeting what they thought about opening the front doors to entry again.