Several subcontractors who helped build the new Hodge Elementary School have had to negotiate with a bond company to get paid. Contractor Elkins Constructors closed its doors just three months after completing construction of the new school, and the owner merged with another firm and reorganized as a new company called Elkins Construction LLC. That meant district officials had to make the final payout on the Elkins Constructors’ $15,455,709 contract to a bonding company, which was responsible for negotiating outstanding invoices to subcontractors from the Hodge School construction project. At the time, the change rattled Savannah-Chatham Public Schools officials.