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Keith Vandervort ELY –No turning back now. Demolition of the Ely school Industrial Arts building started Monday afternoon as the $20 million facility renovation project moves forward for ISD 696. School board members gathered a couple of hours later and were briefed on how they hope to proceed with a project that was bid millions of dollars over budget. District leaders formally rejected the entire second phase construction bid package that came in last month at more than $8 million, twice the amount that was estimated. School officials and project managers are now facing the prospect of working through possible major reductions of as much as $ 4 million in renovating the existing school campus buildings when they re-bid that portion of the project later this fall. ....