Help wanted: construction teams at Seaside’s Heights Elementary School.

As the school district’s remodel of the Heights begins at the school year’s end in June, project managers and architects issued a call to contractors. More than 20 local, regional and out-of-area contractors came to the district’s administration building Thursday to hear bid details and deadlines.

Project scope includes a new gym, with flooring, office, storage areas and bathrooms, said Robert Allen of BRIC Architecture.

Other areas of the site will see roof work and seismic upgrades. Outdoor areas to be bid include adding a fire access road around the building, a bus turnaround and playground structures and equipment. Site work involves grading, retaining walls and utilities.

“That’s the meat of this bid package,” Allen said.

The renovation is considered the second phase of the $99.7 construction project that sees the relocation of the middle and high schools to a location outside of the tsunami inundation zone.

Voters approved the project in December 2016.

Going with local contractors is a “big part” of the bond, Hoffman Construction’s Cary Bubenik said.

“Any time I go to any community, whether Portland or Sisters, we try to utilize local as much as we can. It’s part of our contract, it’s the right thing to do, and it’s part of our company culture.”

While the project is on track schedule-wise, Bubenik said, the bid process had originally been planned for last summer.

That process was delayed by the late delivery of an Army Corps of Engineers wetlands permit. With bid deadlines in May and work slated to begin June 17, there’s little time for delay.

“As soon as school’s out, we’re going to start aggressively,” Bubenik said.

Work is expected to be complete by Aug. 30, construction manager Phil Broome added. “We have to be ready for the kids.”

Project managers plan a second bid package in late August, designed to address the south portion of the Heights remodel.

That work is scheduled for early winter, and will “hopefully be completed in September 2020,” Bubenik said.