Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 19

Oakland Tribune 19 WeaVsdn, Nov. 11,1959 1 w'm IHill Area High School Bids $1,000,000 Above Estimate Teacher Noon Relief Plan Lifts Morale Oakland's noon relief pro gram for elementary teachers and its $400,000 expenditure project pending the Hill Area and Castlemont High School projects. Bids on Castlemont are due Dec. 1. School officials had hoped that the similarity of design in the Hill' Area buildings and one-story construction would help counter the recent increase in construction costs.

"We don't really know why the bids are this high," Spencer Benhow, business manager, said after the meeting. "We are greatly disappointed." When architect John Warnecke upped his budget estimate to $3,650,600 this summer, he blamed labor and material increases as well as the uncertainty of future hikes. update fire safety in older schools have come in for some praise. Board of Education membefsls read letters yesterday from If I ff 4 A bid $1,131,704 above the original budget was lowest of five opened on the Hill Area High School at yesterday' Board of Education meeting, The bid by John T. Branagh and Inc.

of Piedmont is also more than $500,000 over the architect's estimate and a revised budget estimate made this June. Eleven deductive alternates could shave another $833,700 from BranaghV base figure. These would include omitting the auditorium, business education building, field house, covered walkways, paving and fencing. Should all deductive alter-rates be accepted, a bid by P. Lathrop of Berkeley would be below Branagh's figure by more than $100,000.

UP TO COMMITTEE Bids and alternates will be studied by the Building and Grounds Committee and the Citizens School Construction Committee tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. This group has already delayed action on the Mc-Chesney Junior High School of each" other rather than the usual 10 per cent spread. He believes contractors bol-stered their bids, because of the steel situation so they could be protected during the 18 months it will take to build the school. Gordon Carter, office manager for Branagh, contended the original budget and architect's estimate were too low for the job, "I don't think is "a realistic figure," he. said.

"I think that's too low. Of course the steel strike has made some difference." Carter said he thought prices had risen about 20 per cent in the past three years. Site development work on the project at Skyline Blvd. and Fernhoff Road has already beem completed. The school is the biggest budget item in the current $40,000,000 construction pro-gram now entering its final phase.

The project calls for an administration building, cafeteria, library, auditorium, gymnasium and 57 the Montclair Faculty' and from State Fire Marshal' i. Joe Yockers on the matters. The faculty reported the' The estimate was 19 per cent noon relief program has been in full operation now for two; weeks and has already brought a marked improvement morale. v. over the original budget, yesterday's low bid was 30 per cent over STRIKE-CAUSED? "I think the steel strike and this current carpenter's thing caught us," a spokesman fdr Warnecke said today.

He noted that all bids' on the The program was one mended in a consulting firm's survey of the schools. Supt of Schools Selmer Berg said the-' th rear and left. Low bid on th achool was 30 per cent above the original budget estimate of $3,043,295. HILL AREA HIGH SCHOOL Architect's sketch of project shows gymnasium in foreground with the auditorium at plan has been in full operation in the elementary schools since; the middle of Octobers job were within 2Vt per cent Longer Runway 'CUSTOMERS PARK ONE HOUR FREE IN SWAN'S OWN FULL-DLOCIC LOT1 Parents and other laymen are hired to supervise tht MOMBASSA, Kenya-ffiFD children during the noon hour we cash your paycheck free Work will be completed next June on extending Mombassa Airport's main runway to 6,200 it's like finding money! SWAN'S CREDIT PLAN IS INSTANT CASH when you need it as you need it and right now! no tiresome waiting for feet. r-1 WASHINGTON AT 10th au i i8- credit approval with every purchase; with 5WN CREDIT PLAN Your credit rating is automatic payments arranged to suit YOUR budget.

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1 Bids were awarded fof grading, paving and drainage work at Laurel School; lawn irrigation systems at Brook. -v field Elementary and Montera Junio High; landscaping at Montera and demolition of at wooden academic building at the Horace Mann site. were under budget estimates. 2 A check for $1,479 received from the Joaquin Mil-i ler Heights Transportation. Committee to help defray expenses in the area.

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