Putnam School Board Approves Contractor For Upperman HS Addition

The Upperman High School addition will move forward after the Putnam County School Board awarded a bid for the project Thursday night.

Architect Kim Chamberlin said the approved bid came in about $700,000 under budget.

“We also have to get a testing company on board to be a part of the process to make sure everything is getting down according to code, so we have a company that did the original subsurface investigation,” Chamberlin said.

The school board approved the $6,000 price tag for that, as well. Chamberlin said he has the contracts prepared for the contractor, so that it can proceed with construction. The completion time was estimated at about 420 days.

The work will add four classrooms, a multi-purpose room and a chorus room. The approved bid came in at $4.6 million.

Local contractor King Construction will conduct the work.