Too high for budget: School board rejects lone track bid

The Colfax school board will seek another option to build a new track after rejecting the lone bid for the project Monday night.

A bid of $318,000 from Palouse River Rock, Colfax, was declined at the board’s regular meeting after Superintendent Jerry Pugh suggested it was too high compared to cost projections.

“We will look at other alternatives at our disposal,” Pugh told the board. “We’re coming back, we’re crunching numbers. We’re vetting everything right now.”

The district and its architects on the project, Architects West of Coeur D’Alene, had gone out to bid in March for the track work,...