Bids for more than $565,000 worth of mainly cosmetic improvements at three Lamesa campuses were approved by Lamesa school board members during their regular meeting this past Tuesday. On the same day, subcontractor bids for a new Career and Technology Education (CTE) building at the high school came in lower than expected, according to Superintendent Jim Knight. Although noting those CTE bids still are being reviewed, Knight told the Press-Reporter on Friday they totaled about $10.8 million. That is comfortably below the projected amount of about $11.2 million. Included in that total is not only construction of the CTE building but also renovation of ...