As the Knox Community School Corporation prepares to embark on its $20 million building project, the school board is putting some stipulations in place for companies hoping to work on it.
The school board passed a responsible bidding practice resolution Monday, according to Superintendent Dr. William Reichhart. “The basics is that anyone who now bids on our project, their workforce has to go through an apprenticeship-type program, in order to bid on our project,” he explains.
Reichhart says Operators Union Local 150 representative Bob Coles was at Monday’s meeting to thank the board for passing the resolution. “He said that there were 79 members of Local 150 that lived in Starke County that would be interested in working on this project in some fashion.”
Reichhart stresses that the responsible bidding practice resolution doesn’t exclude non-union companies from doing work, but ensures that anyone who does bid has workers who have gone through a properly-administered licensing program.
