Leatherneck Nation

vatusay wrote:Asphalt will be going down this year in half of the bypass.

That is correct, Gunther Construction a division of UCM was awarded the contract for 36.1 Million to do the first two lanes and all of the bridges associated. Work should begin this spring on that portion and most likely finish middle of next year.

Tere North wrote:I'm guess for Western Hall seating too even though students largely aren't allowed to sit in the seats that will be replaced.

There is a lot of seating available for students on both sides of the main floor.

For Men's Games: The Reserved sections are C, D, E, and F on the north side of the main floor as well as section K on the south side. This leaves sections A, B, and G on the north side and everything except section K on the south side open for students and general admission seating. The two end sections A and G are not ideal seating. But the south side of the main floor is open for student and general seating except section K which is in the middle.

For Women's Game: The Reserved sections are D, E, and F. This leaves sections A, B, C, and G as well as the entire south side open for students.

WIU0812 wrote:

vatusay wrote:Asphalt will be going down this year in half of the bypass.

That is correct, Gunther Construction a division of UCM was awarded the contract for 36.1 Million to do the first two lanes and all of the bridges associated. Work should begin this spring on that portion and most likely finish middle of next year.

Im very familiar lol

Also I'm on my phone I might have accidentally reported your post instead of quote the first time. Sorry if I did, unintentional.

Some very good perspective here. NFS71, I admire your optimism, I just don't mirror it.

Can someone help get me up to speed on where things ended with the PAC? My understanding is it got approved, there was a budget, there was a groundbreaking ceremony, and there was a bidding time frame. If I remember right only one firm bid on the project, maybe having to do with needing a huge amount of bonding insurance ( I don't know) anyway what happened after that?

according to my scorecard:

No new PAC.
No renovated Arena.
No new West Grand Stand,

If Im a 17 year old high school student with a decent GPA and a decent ACT, why would I choose to go to Western Illinois University?

RedNeck wrote:Some very good perspective here. NFS71, I admire your optimism, I just don't mirror it.

Can someone help get me up to speed on where things ended with the PAC? My understanding is it got approved, there was a budget, there was a groundbreaking ceremony, and there was a bidding time frame. If I remember right only one firm bid on the project, maybe having to do with needing a huge amount of bonding insurance ( I don't know) anyway what happened after that?

If I remember correctly, there was one "valid" bid (like, two more came in literally less than an hour too late). The one that was "valid" came in too high, so they were starting to work on paring down the requirements a bit to cut some money, then put it out for re-bid hoping that the second round of bids would come in under budget. Before they were able to put it out for re-bid, the budget stalemate struck and all capital projects were put on hold. At this point, they have the plans and designs and everything, and I'd bet they've done everything they can to bring the cost down somewhat, but they have to wait for the state budget to come through before they can put it out for re-bid. And even if it does come through, I don't know that there's any guarantee that they will be allocated money to build it. It comes from different funding than the standard operating budget, but lawmakers may decide that the capital improvements budget needs to be slashed as well.

Thank you Scott

When I read your post the first thing I thought of from back in my day was the "State of Forgotonia!"

Wow LeatherCy, spot on!

Jeez, I just type in forgottonia in Google Chrome and the first thing to pop up is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgottonia


Also this was on History Channel a couple years ago, way cool:

http://dailymotionfile.com/v_x2j66rf