BROOKFIELD — The Brookfield Board of Education gained a better idea of what steps were going to look like moving forward for a piece of property the district acquired toward the end of last year.

At Wednesday’s board meeting, Superintendent Toby Gibson said officials had a pre-bid meeting for the renovation of Tiffany’s Banquet Center, which the board closed on last November.

Treasurer Jordan Weber echoed Gibson’s pleasure with the turnout at the meeting, calling it “tremendous.”

“Anyone who wants to bid on it has to go to the meeting and sign in; not everyone who goes there will end up bidding on it,” Weber said. “A lot of them, if they would have seen it, they might be like, ‘Well, I’m not going to bid this for X, Y and Z.”

Weber said that besides the roof, the renovation was all one phase — whether they have to tweak portions of it, using the choice of one flooring over another because of final costs.

“We will have one general contractor; I think where a lot of the attendees fell into place today was several electrical contractors,” Weber said. “They’d be the ones that the general contractor would end up selling out to, so we would have nothing to do with what their arrangement is.”

Weber said 30 to 40 trucks appeared at the pre-bid meeting, noting that the more hands in the pot the district gets, the more likely they’ll get a “very good, competitive price.”

“And to be honest, it’s probably very good for some of those guys to see so much interest from some of their local competitors, so they know if they want the job, they need to be competitive,” Weber said. “If, like, two guys had shown up, they wouldn’t have tried very hard, and they could bid and we’ll have to take it.”

The bids will be read at 11 a.m. Dec. 4, according to Weber. Assuming they like at least one of the bids, the winning one will be voted on for approval at the December board meeting.

Weber said regarding the roof, pre-work was done on it and officials had gotten a separate estimate on it — but it was a “moot point” because contractors couldn’t do anything with it until April.

Weber said officials expect to bid the project’s roof portion out in January or February, because they need someone lined up to determine what the roof needs.

“In a perfect world, we would replace the whole thing; it’s kind of different chunks, there’s bits we can get by on, you know the type of things,” Weber said. “A lot of it is going to hinge on what the bid comes in at for the actual renovation.”