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Contract given for Vallecitos Elementary School siding and stucco work

GEM Industrial Inc. received the Vallecitos School District contract for siding and stucco repair and replacement at Vallecitos Elementary School.

A 4-0 board vote Feb. 9, with one vacant seat, awarded the Lakeside company an $18,900 contract for the repair and replacement work. The contract amount covers labor at prevailing wages, materials and equipment.

“We’ve worked with them in the past,” Maritza Koeppen, superintendent of Vallecitos School District and principal of Vallecitos Elementary School, said.

Buildings at the elementary school are in need of stucco repairs and repairing or replacing siding.

“It looks like we’ve got some dry rot,” Michael Darnley, president of the Vallecitos School District board, said. “There are issues with the masonry work.”

Some contractors prefer larger jobs and are reluctant to respond to a request for proposals to renovate a small school.

“We had several contractors come by,” Darnley said. “We didn’t get too many bids on that.”

The GEM proposal calls for securing plywood on the ceiling at the lunch area and touching up paint as necessary, patching masonry on the walls and paint in the lunch area, replacing 40 feet of siding on each of two relocatable buildings including caulking and paint and patching the stucco and paint to match the existing material on the south side of the administration building.

“I’m glad to see there are some other things in here,” Darnley said.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at [email protected].

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Joe Naiman has been writing for the Village News since 2001

 

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