Port awards Boyer Park project contract

Port of Whitman commissioners last Thursday awarded the Boyer Park RV expansion project to Palouse River Rock of Colfax who submitted a base bid of $404,700, which was $4,700 higher than the high end of the engineer’s estimate.

The final contract package, including the project alternates and taxes, comes in at $623,299.

“While the number does seem large now, the port has not in the past put a lot of money into (Boyer),” Commissioner Tom Kammerzell said in the discussion prior to the vote. “It is the one place where all the public is getting the benefit of the use of the park. It is going to be...