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Oswego School District 308 approves facility needs plan going into new year · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego School District three toh eight approves facility needs plan
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  going into new year. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Oswego School
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  District three toh eight now has a plan for addressing
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  the district's facility needs. School board members recently approved a
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  long range plan broken down into three phases Facility Condition Assessment,
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  educational Alignment, and long Range Facility Planning. District three toh
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  eight officials said because of the population growth of the
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  Oswego area in the early two thousands, many of the
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  district's schools were built around the same time and need
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  updates to h fake units, roofs, and flooring. The school
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  district serves portions of Kendall, Will and Kane Counties. Eighty
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  percent of the district's buildings were constructed between nineteen ninety
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  five and twenty ten. As architectural engineering and construction firm
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  White and Damp Company noted, the district has been taking
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  care of its buildings and no building is in critical condition.
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  In putting together the plan, the district held a series
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  of community meetings then very happy with the engagement activities
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  around this plan. How much input we got from the
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  community about what they wanted to see in our facilities
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  over the years, board member Amy Morillo said, And overall,
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  I think we're doing a really good job with that
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  of getting feedback in a variety of circumstances around there.
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  stake every week. So that is my stake advice. I
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  think that is the next step in the works to
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  figure out what comes first and what resources were going
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  to eat to make it happen, she said. Board vice
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  president Heather Martin said she is excited about having a
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  framework that we can use the guide the future of
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  the district. Educational alignment is something that was looked at
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  as part of the Master Facility Plan. Educational alignment is
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  a term that simply means we're going to look at
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  what would it take to better align the interior learning
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  environments and the site learning environments with the goals of
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  the district's strategic plans. Stuart Brodsky, principal with White and
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  Damp Company, had told those attending a facility planning workshop
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  at Murphy Junior High School and Plainfield to improve the
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  educational alignment. The plan makes several suggestions about things that
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  could be done at each building. That includes modernizing the
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  administrative spaces at Murphy Junior High improving the science labs
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  at as we Go High School, and increasing student parking
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  at as we Go East High School. More information about
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  the plan is available at the district's website at SD
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