School Building Committee Chairman Mark Bettencourt said Tuesday the bids the city has received to build two new elementary schools are within the funding amount approved by voters. The bids, which are available on the city’s bidding portal, show that the lowest possible cost for 26 categories of work to complete the Greeneville and Stanton elementary schools, including sitework, demolition, heating, venting and cooling, is $102 million. That estimate, calculated by adding the lowest bids submitted in each of the 26 categories, does not include the cost of Downes Construction, the construction manager for the two schools, and Construction Solutions Group, the project manager for the $385 million project to build four new schools and renovate two buildings. It also does not include the cost of architectural design or woodwork, a 27th category which did not attract any bids. The highest possible cost for the two schools, based on the initial bids, is $133.2 million. It would be unlikely for the city to choose all of the most expensive bids.
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