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The vote was not unanimous. Written By: Leah Ward | × District 518's administration building in Worthington. WORTHINGTON — The District 518 school board voted Tuesday night to award a bid to Hoogendorn Construction to build the planned community education building. Hoogendorn's bid came in at $12,995,000, with two alternates: including terrazzo floor in some areas for an additional $128,000, and a reduction of $5,000 to refrain from building a temporary road. The sub-contractor Henning Construction, planning to do the site prep for Hoogendorn, made a few recommendations to ...

Discussions to be continued in upcoming committee meetings.

District 518 will hold a public meeting March 8 before board members vote on how to proceed. Written By: Leah Ward | × District 518's administration building in Worthington. WORTHINGTON — Members of the District 518 school board spent most of a nearly two-hour work session Tuesday night discussing several options regarding the plans for the new community education building. Former Shopko building The most urgent decision the board needs to make is whether it wants to reconsider purchasing the Shopko building, Superintendent John Landgaard said. The building is still for sal...

District 518 board approves March learning plan with Wednesday early release time Written By: Leah Ward | × District 518's administration building in Worthington. WORTHINGTON — About 30 local teachers attended Tuesday night's regular District 518 school board meeting and made statements in response to a committee discussion that occurred last week. The instructional committee began to consider the March learning plan last week, and one factor was whether or not to continue with Wednesday early release. Teachers spoke Tuesday night in favor of continuing early release to all...

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