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Could the site of Yorkville Dist. 115’s proposed new school also house a new fire station? · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Could the site of Yorkville Disc one fifteen's proposed new
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  school also house a new fire station. This article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  With a two hundred and seventy five million dollar referendum
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  upcoming for new school buildings and expanded Yorkville School District
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  one hundred and fifteen facilities, the newly bought site of
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  one of the proposed schools is taking shape with a
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  new twist. In moving the school district's application for annexation
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  and rezoning of three parcels totaling around one hundred and
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  fifty five acres forward, it was revealed that in addition
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  to a new school building, one of the parcels could
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  house a new fire station. The Bristol Kendall Fire Protection
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  District is currently looking to build another station to help
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  meet rising call demands for the region's booming population. Chief
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  Jeremy Messersmith previously said they are handling their highest ever
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  call volume. During the committee meeting, city officials said the
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  school district might be looking to work with the Bristol
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  Kendall Fire Protection District on donating some of the land
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  on the one hundred and six acre parcel. A new
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  fire station is projected to cost about twelve million dollars.
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  The fire district's twenty twenty five strategic plan within this
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  year's budget includes three hundred thousand dollars for possible land
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  acquisition for a future fire station. District one fifteen bought
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  the one hundred and six acre farmland property from the
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  Conover family back in June for about two million dollars.
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  The property is located about a quarter mile west of
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  the current high school campus, north of River Road. The
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  land is likely to be the site of a new
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  middle school or a new elementary school, which are both
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  within the proposed referendum. Residents are voting on the referendum
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  on the March seventeenth ballot. The school district currently is
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  hosting a series of public talks to help involve the
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  community with the facility expansion process. In addition to a
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  new middle school a new elementary school, the plans include
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  a new performing arts center and a fieldhouse auditorium outside
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  Yorkville High School. A new academic wing is also designed
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  for the high school. District one fifteen previously said the
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  expansion is necessary because the aging buildings are bursting at
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  the seams from increasing student enrollment. The student population has
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  increased four thousand, seven hundred and forty four students since
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  two thousand and two to seven thousand, one hundred and
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  fifty one at the time of the school district's rezoning application.
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  The most recent constructed school buildings were built in two
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  thousand and nine. According to the school district, District one
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  fifteen expects to increase another eight hundred students over the
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  next five years. Within the application, the school district is
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  also seeking to rezone forty five acres of land it
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  already owns on the high school property behind the current
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  baseball and softball fields. Both properties will need to be
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  rezoned from single fire family suburban residents to public institutional
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  district to enable the construction of public school facilities. District
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  one point fifteen previously said it does not have any
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  current plans to build on the forty five acre property
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  adjacent to the high school, but the district wants all
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  of their own properties zone the same for any potential
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  future plans. A public hearing for the proposed annexation for
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  the three parcels is scheduled for the January thirteenth. City
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  council meeting,