School trustees on Tuesday authorized their superintendent to replace an aging greenhouse and chose a model used at the Dallas Arboretum.
Superintendent John Kuhn said the board took the staff recommendation to hire L.J. Design and Construction, which offered to install a Stuppy model greenhouse.
In addition to the Production Greenhouse in Dallas, the 150-year-old Stuppy Greenhouse Design, Manufacturing and Construction has greenhouses at the University of North Texas and citrus houses used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Fort Worth-based L.J. Design was the highest of the three bidders, at $214,900. Another company bid $212,334, and a third bid was $129,750 but it was not recommended by maintenance and career/technology education staff earlier this year.
Kuhn said the old greenhouse was having repeated repair problems, including a rusted base that had been replaced twice. "It's actually older than the high school itself," he said.
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