525 Hamilton Street, Suite 302B | Toledo, Ohio 43604 | (419) 324-3619
Legal Notice to Bidders
Miller-Valentine is requesting bids for the Nia Heights project in Toledo, Ohio, a 16-unit scattered site of single family homes. MBE’s registered with the City of Toledo are encouraged to participate. Construction is scheduled to commence in summer of 2010 and will finish within 12 months. This is a formal request for competitive bids for work and / or supply of materials for this project. Pricing is expected to be guaranteed for the length of the entire project. Please note this project is governed by Davis Bacon Residential prevailing wage rates.
The bid deadline is Monday July 12th at 11:00 a.m. In order to ensure an equitable comparison of all bids, proposals must be on the required bid forms and delivered to our office in a properly addressed, SEALED envelope or it will be disqualified! We will analyze all bids and consequently award contracts for this project. The owner reserves the right to reject any, part of any, or all of said proposals, and to waive formalities in the bids. Send bids to: Miller-Valentine, Attn: Estimating / Nia Heights Bid, 9349 WaterStone Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45249. Questions can be directed to Estimating at 513.774.8400.
Plans, bid forms, prevailing wage rates, specifications, may be purchased by contacting Toledo Blueprints, Jeff Anderson 419.661.9841, AMI Apex Micrographics, Inc. 5973 Telegrah Road, Laneta Goings 419-476-6535 or Key Blueprints (Cincinnati) 513.821.2111. Plans are available for viewing at the following locations: McGraw Hill Dodge Online Plan Room, Northwest Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Toledo Minority Contractors Business Assistance Program. If you have the capability to view or print yourself, contact Kathy at 513.588.1611 or via e-mail at kathy.mathis@mvg.com to obtain login directions for the website.
Miller-Valentine Group is an EEO/AA Employer.
Set of Blueprints at ONYX 525 Hamilton Street Suite 302B
Toledo, Ohio 43604
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Jimmy L. Gaines Sr. Executive Director / WilliAnn Moore Board President
Article published April 03, 2010
Spared razing, Libbey has rich history
By TOM TROY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER
At one time, Libbey High School had so many students that the young scholars had to be scheduled in shifts.
That was 1959, and Libbey’s brick walls bulged with 2,382 students.
In recent years, though, some school officials have said the near-600 young people trickling in from the aging South Toledo neighborhoods near Libbey just don’t justify the cost of maintaining the sprawling structure.
The Toledo Board of Education voted 3-2 Thursday night to find money to keep the school open.
Built with an imposing five-story facade in 1923 at a cost of $1.5 million, Libbey became the third high school in Toledo, joining Scott and Waite.
It was named after one of Toledo’s greatest industrialists and benefactors, glass industry pioneer Edward Drummond Libbey, who died three years after it was built.
An online history maintained by the Libbey High School Alumni Association says the 35-acre site at 1250 Western Ave. was “exceptionally large.” Mr. Libbey contributed $35,000 to alter the course of Swan Creek and fill in land behind the school site.
In 1927, his widow, Florence Scott Libbey, gave another $50,000 to build the school a football stadium. A field house was added in 1955, followed by the skill center in 1976.
The opening of Bowsher High School in 1962 about two miles southwest took a big bite out of Libbey’s enrollment.
Libbey’s alumni filled the ranks of Toledo leadership - among them former Toledo City Councilman Betty Shultz, retired WTOL-TV, Channel 11 sportscaster Orris Tabner, retired Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Ronald Bowman, and sitting Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Charles Doneghy.
Thanks largely to the appeals of students and alumni, the school has survived while others have been closed as Toledo’s school enrollment has dwindled.
But Libbey’s likely fate was sealed in 2002 when voters approved a levy to help finance an $821 million school reconstruction program, with Libbey on the demolition list.
Not all of the almuni have been as eager to see the school preserved.
Jimmy Gaines, a retired city administrator, class of ‘67, said in 2002 that Libbey’s students needed a modern high school. “The place just doesn’t meet the needs of the students and teachers anymore,” he said.
Contact Tom Troy at:
tomtroy@theblade.com
or 419-724-6058.
Article published March 26, 2010
The Blade/Amy E. Voigt
Students say, count us in
WilliAnn Moore, president of the Toledo NAACP, hugs Tayeana Willis, right, after Miss Willis sang ‘The Greatest Love of All.’ In addition to the performances, students presented their creative writing projects, which dealt with the U.S. census.
Happy students at the Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls in Toledo including Jiliyah Easter, center, react after a surprise performance by the Zion City Drum Corps. The school, in conjunction with the Toledo Unit of the NAACP, hosted a ‘2010 Census Extravaganza’ yesterday.
Article published March 16, 2010
TPS concerns heard; parents, students speak against proposed cuts
Trina Willis advocates keeping Ella P. Stewart Academy girls-only. Her daughter Taeyana, foreground, is a fifth grader there.
( THE BLADE/LORI KING )
By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Toledo resident Donna Cassady said she feels like a blackmail victim when it comes to public school funding.
School leaders want her and other voters to approve an income tax increase to raise $18 million annually to save popular school programs, including sports.
Ms. Cassady, a nurse, whose son attends East Broadway Middle School, is tired of tax increases. But if sports and other programs go away, her son will suffer, she said, more students will leave the district, and property values could decrease even more.
“I feel like we’re being blackmailed,” she said. “Show me, as a mom of a good kid, an athletic kid, who performs well in school, why I shouldn’t take him out of TPS.”
She spoke during a public hearing last night on the $30 million budget deficit that the school system projects for next fiscal year.
About 75 parents, school employees, and students attended the meeting at Waite High School. Their comments were recorded for consideration by the Toledo Board of Education.
Board members must choose from a menu of programs and teaching positions eligible for trimming or elimination because they’re not required by state law.
The list - which includes laying off more than 300 teachers, closing Libbey High School, and scaling back bus service - has prompted broad protest from the community.
Before the hearing, a group of community leaders and parents held a news conference objecting to a proposal to merge Lincoln
Academy for Boys, an elementary school with 147 students, and Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls, which has 230 students.
The group said the proposal, which would save $344,000, would be devastating because the students have performed better without the distraction of members of the opposite sex.
For example, in 2002, the year before Stewart became all-girls, 15 percent of sixth graders there passed the state reading test. Last year, 96 percent passed.
“With boys, there are distractions,” student Taeyana Willis said during the news conference. “There are boys liking girls, and we don’t get anything done.”
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jjoyce@theblade.com
or 419-724-6134.
