CHEYENNE, Wyo.-
Contractors in Wyoming say they’re up for the big job of building schools all over the state.
Josh Carnahan, executive director of Wyoming Associated Builders, told the state School Facilities Commission on Tuesday that most of the group’s members build large projects and that together they can bond $570 million.
Carnahan said afterward that some commission staff have met with Colorado contractors.
But the commission’s director, Ken Daraie, said the commission members were invited by the contractors to meet with them.
“I think it would be inaccurate to say that we are actively recruiting out-of-state contractors,” Daraie said.
Daraie acknowledged that a Colorado contractor is the general contractor for a multimillion-dollar project in the Cheyenne school district. But he said 70 percent of a school construction boom in Wyoming is being handled by Wyoming contractors.
Wyoming is spending hundreds of millions of dollars building, adding to and renovating schools in response to a state Supreme Court ruling requiring all school facilities to be equal regardless of districts’ wealth.
