Good news on Volney Rogers school bids

YOUNGSTOWN — Bids for the construction of a new Volney Rogers Middle School came in at 2004 construction cost levels.

The city school board awarded nearly $9 million in contracts for the new building Tuesday. It will be erected on the old Volney Rogers site at 2400 S. Schenley Ave.

The bids were “fantastic,” said Steven Ludwinski, senior project manager for Heery International Inc., the school district’s construction manager on its $190 million school rebuilding program.

A ground breaking has been scheduled for 10 a.m. June 4.

Ludwinski told the board that the bids were very close to the original Ohio School Facilities Commission 2004 budget projections. The OSFC is picking up 80 percent of the rebuilding program costs.

The total Volney Rogers project will have a cost of $10.8 million, close to the $10.3 million original projection, he said.

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