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Is West Ridge High in limbo? BOE tables vote on bids

BLOUNTVILLE — Sullivan County Board of Education Chairman Michael Hughes had planned to sign a more than $60 million contract with Blountville-based J.A. Street & Associates to build the new West Ridge High School after Thursday night’s called board meeting. But that was not to be. The only approval vote at the meeting was to recommend the $84.1 million 2018-19 school budget, minus any mention of the $4.8 million in reserve funds the board plans to use for athletic facilities to supplement bond proceeds, and send that plan on to the County Commission. Some opponents of the 1,700-student “mega school” in the audience of almost 60 said during public comments they knew what they said would make no difference and the board would go ahead and approve the bid, which would be a milestone in the six years of public input, debate and money wrangling about the new high school — already under site preparation — and the new Sullivan East Middle School already under construction. So the audience cheered and clapped when the board voted 4-3 to table the bid vote on a motion by board member and school foe Mark Ireson of Colonial Heights.

 

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