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Oswego District 308 seeks state grant to help pay for $200,000 flooring project · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego District threeh eight zeek state grant to help pay
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  for two hundred thousand dollars flooring project. This article is
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  Oswego School District three toh eight is applying for a
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  fifty thousand dollars state grant to help pay for a
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  two hundred thousand dollars project to replacing flooring at three schools.
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  The Aswego School Board simply approved applying for the School
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  Maintenance Project grant. District threeh eight's Operations department proposes a
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  project to replace flooring in the gyms at Lakewood Creek
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  Elementary School in Montgomery and the Wheatland Elementary School in Aurora,
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  as well as the second floor hallway at Fox Chase
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  Elementary School in Oswego with updated and more durable flooring materials.
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  The flooring in all of these locations consists of extremely
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  worn carpet, an inappropriate flooring material for school gyms. District
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  three toh eight chief financial Officer and Chief School Business Official,
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  Rafael Obafemi said in a memo to school board members
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  the project is estimated to cost two hundred thousand dollars
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  and is set for completion in summer twenty twenty six.
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  The school board approved allocating two hundred thousand dollars from
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  local funds through the district's Operations and Maintenance purposes LEVY
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  and to submit a grant application for fifty thousand dollars
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  of the total project cost. With the Illinois State Board
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  of Education approves the application, the district will receive fifty
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  thousand dollars toward the cost of the multi school flooring
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  replacement project. A project may involve different types of work
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  on a single building or on several buildings or structures.
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  Obaphamy said there is no limit to the cost of
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  a project. However, grant awards shall not exceed fifty thousand
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  dollars per grant award and applicants shall provide a match
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  from local funds equal to the grant amount requested.