NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A Louisiana company has won the contract to build a new high school in Mississippi.
Don Barron Contractor of Farmerville, Louisiana, submitted the lowest bid of $20.7 million and will build the Natchez Adams School District’s new Natchez High School. The district’s Board of Trustees unanimously awarded the bid during a special-called meeting Tuesday, The Natchez Democrat reported.
Barron Contractor was about $300,000 below the budgeted amount for the new school, architect William McElroy said during the meeting.
District officials plan to build the new high school in the “bean field” next to the current Natchez High School campus and renovate the existing high school to house middle school students. The project is being financed through a combination of a 3 mil tax levy and Trust Certificates.
The Board of Trustees received bids from 11 different contractors, with the next lowest of bid being $20.8 million from and the highest being $23.2 million.
“We are extremely excited about the bid participation,” McElroy said.
Barron Contractor is currently at work on the Monterey High School Gym in Concordia Parish and has also worked on the Union Parish High School and Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Monroe, Louisiana.
“It has been a pleasure working with you all because you understand … dollars and cents,” Superintendent Fred Butcher said to the company’s representatives at Tuesday’s meeting. “I think you’ve tried to the best of your ability to keep us within the dollars that have been allotted to this project while at the same time making sure that we have a high-quality project.”
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