Bellingham Public Schools will shell out nearly $472,000 to ensure the new Options High School building is completed on time after mistakes, site issues and weather caused months of setbacks.

In Bellingham, school officials began addressing concerns of seismic safety more than a decade ago, said Ron Cowan, the district’s executive director of capital projects and school facilities.

Bellingham School District assistant superintendent Ron Cowan takes a photo inside a destroyed classroom during a tour of Whatcom Middle School on Friday morning, Dec. 4, 2009.

A $160 million bond passed in 2013 is funding all three projects, said Ron Cowan, the district’s executive director of capital projects and school facilities.

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