Bluffs school project OK'd

COUNCIL BLUFFS — The Council Bluffs Community School District Board voted Tuesday to proceed with the final phase of a five-year renovation at Thomas Jefferson High School.

The district will seek bids to remodel the school's wood, automotive and welding shops into industrial technology, construction and engineering lab areas.

Also under the plan, areas of the school used for the Talented and Gifted program and the drafting lab will become classrooms for the school's business and finance program.

Architects expect the project's cost of about $927,000 to be paid for using proceeds from the statewide 1-cent sales tax, officials said.

The vote allows the district to receive bids by April 6 and have a recommendation ready for board approval by April 13. Work would begin at the end of the school year and should be completed by mid-August.

No one spoke at the short public hearing on the project.

— World-Herald News Service

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