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Several Oswego District 308 schools ready to show off improvements when new school year begins · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Several Aswigo District three hundred and eight schools ready to
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  Speaker 1: show off improvements when new school year begins. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Eric Shelkov, This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. When Oswego School District
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and eight students start the new school year
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  Speaker 1: on August twentieth, they will see improvements at several schools.
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  Speaker 1: That includes completion of a gymnasium carpet replacement project at
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  Speaker 1: Lakewood Creek Elementary School in Montgomery and the Wheatlands Elementary
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  Speaker 1: School in Aurora, as well as the completion of emergency
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  Speaker 1: repairs to a cooling system at Boulder Hill Elementary School
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  Speaker 1: in Boulder Hill. At the August tenth Oswego School Board meeting,
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  Speaker 1: Dist three hundred and eight Operations Director Andre Scuncy provided
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  Speaker 1: an update on the projects. Two chiller compressors at Boulder
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  Speaker 1: Hill Elementarree School have recently been repaired. As of July thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: both compressors were installed by the contractors. Scoensee told board
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  Speaker 1: members the building has been cooling for almost two weeks now.
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  Speaker 1: We've not seen any hiccups or issues. At a special
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  Speaker 1: meeting on July twenty first, board members unanimously voted to
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  Speaker 1: purchase two rebuilt replacement compressors through Bullock, Logan and Associates
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  Speaker 1: at a cost of one hundred five thousand, six hundred
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight dollars. They also voted unanimously to approve a
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  Speaker 1: twelve thousand, one hundred and sixty and sixty nine dollars
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  Speaker 1: and seventy three cents contract with Johnson Controls to install
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  Speaker 1: the two rebuilt compressors. The projects one hundred seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven dollars and seventy three cents price
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  Speaker 1: tag will be funded through the district's Operations and Maintenance Fund.
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  Speaker 1: Flooring projects. The gym floor at Lakewood Creek Elementary School
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  Speaker 1: and the Wheatlands Elementary School still had the original carpet
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  Speaker 1: from when the schools were in constructed. The carpeting had
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  Speaker 1: exceeded its expected service life and required replacement to maintain
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  Speaker 1: a safe, clean, and functional environment for physical education classes,
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  Speaker 1: student activities, and school events. Suency told board members. In May,
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  Speaker 1: board members approved awarding a one hundred twenty one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty two dollars contract to Addison based
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  Speaker 1: consolidated flooring to replace the carpet at both schools. Demolition
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  Speaker 1: of the existing gymnasium carpeting at both schools began on
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  Speaker 1: July first, and the project was completed on August seventh.
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  Speaker 1: The project was funded in part through a fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars School Maintenance Project grant. The remaining seventy one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty two dollars was funded through budgeted
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  Speaker 1: resources within the Operations and Maintenance fund designated for flooring replacements.
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  Speaker 1: Scooncie said, in addition to those projects, an outdoor learning
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  Speaker 1: space has been added at Brokaw Early Childhood Center in Oswego.
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  Speaker 1: The concrete has been poured and the chain link fence
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  Speaker 1: is up since he said, Brokaw Early Childhood Center administration
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  Speaker 1: is currently in the process of ordering the playground equipment
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  Speaker 1: to complete the outdoor learning space. He said. The project
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  Speaker 1: is fully funded through supplemental grant funds awarded to the
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  Speaker 1: district under the Illinois Preschool for All Grant Program.