Archive for: November 2008

[caption id="attachment_120" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="A block of Greene Street that contains the new city hall, the post office and the Greene Street Sweets was resurfaced this week, a part of the city hall renovation project. There will ...

Bid letting for the approximate $3.5 million addition to the Highland Middle and Senior High School building is early February with a possible contract award in early March. Completion would be in the fall.
The timetable, as well as details about improvements that would add a new wrestling room, library, administrative offices and classrooms, was discussed at a special Highland Board meeting Monday, November 3.
The meeting deal only with the plan with input given by board members and Highland faculty and staff.
Besides the wrestling room, which received a $200,000 grant from the Washington County Riverboat Foundation and $50,000 from the fund raising efforts of the district’s athletic boosters, the plan calls classrooms and offices, with additional funds from the one cent statewide sales tax. The tax, enacted this year, replaced the previous local option sales tax for school infrastructure.

Just an hour and half before Monday’s council meeting, Liberty Group 5 accepted the city’s counter offer of $2.75 per square foot and will buy three acres of land for a new medical clinic. Total price is $359,370 for the site in the city’s commercial park along Highway 22, just east of the Highway 218 interchange.
Part of the deal includes the city waiving all building fees, estimated at $8,968.
Liberty will build a clinic for the University of Iowa Community Medical Services (UICMS), and earlier told the council it planned to open the facility in June.