Planning Continues for Somerton High School

By Rachel Estes for Yuma Sun  Somerton High School is beginning to take shape, at least conceptually, as the Yuma Union High School District governing board voted to award a design contract to DLR Group in the amount of $223,573 to launch the first five percent of the design programming needed to procure building permits and phase into construction once state […]

Is Lack of Oversight at Alhambra Leading to Wasteful Contracts?

By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Inefficient contracts… Lack of oversight and documentation… Resistance to market trends… These are a few of the issues plaguing one of the poorest public school districts in a state that Governing.com has ranked 49th in per pupil funding as recently as June 2018. Forty-five million dollars in bond […]

K12 Procurement Changes Coming Courtesy of SUSD

By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Last month the Red for Ed budget bill caught the local building industry completely off-guard when it included a last-minute amendment that has far-reaching impacts on public K12 procurements. (AZBEX, May 8th) This week I had the opportunity to sit down with the Speaker of the Arizona House […]