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Oswego District 308 Board to hold special meeting to address emergency repairs to Boulder Hill School · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego District three hundred and eight board to hold special
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  Speaker 1: meeting to address emergency repairs to Boulder Hill School. Written
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  Speaker 1: by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being read by an
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  Speaker 1: automated voice brought to you by Everlett. The Oswego dist
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and eight school Board will hold a special
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  Speaker 1: board meeting Tuesday morning to move ahead with emergency repairs
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  Speaker 1: to a cooling system at Boulder Hill Elementary School that
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  Speaker 1: is not working. Two chiller compressors at the school have
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  Speaker 1: given out and require immediate replacement. Dist three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eight Operations Director Andre Scoency told school board members. Staff
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  Speaker 1: members returned to the school on August third, and school
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  Speaker 1: is back in session on August twentieth. The compressors were
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  Speaker 1: originally installed in twenty thirteen and have reached the end
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  Speaker 1: of their service life, he said. Recent monitoring of indoor
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  Speaker 1: temperature has demonstrated the impact of the failing equipment. Sconee
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  Speaker 1: told school board members the district anticipates that during peak
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  Speaker 1: summer conditions, indoor temperatures could exceed ninety degrees. These conditions
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  Speaker 1: would create an unacceptable learning environment and pose significant health, safety,
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  Speaker 1: and comfort concerns for both students and staff. At tuesday's meeting,
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  Speaker 1: board members planned to vote on purchasing two rebuilt replacement
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  Speaker 1: compressors through Bullock Logan and Associates at a cost of
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  Speaker 1: one hundred five thousand, six hundred sixty eight dollars. They
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  Speaker 1: also planned to vote on a twelve thousand, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty nine dollars and seventy three cents contract with
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  Speaker 1: Johnson Controls to install the two rebuilt compressors at a
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  Speaker 1: cost of twelve thousand, one hundred and sixty nine dollars
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  Speaker 1: and seventy three cents. The project carries a one hundred
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  Speaker 1: seventeen thousand, eight hundred and thirty seven dollars and seventy
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  Speaker 1: three cents price tag. It will be funded through the
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  Speaker 1: district's Operations and Maintenance Fund. Officials said the equipment had
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  Speaker 1: been identified through a recent district wide facility audit as
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  Speaker 1: nearing the end of its useful life with fewer than
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  Speaker 1: three years of service remaining. This situation underscores the value
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  Speaker 1: of the district's facility audit, part of the Long Range
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  Speaker 1: Facility Plan, which was completed to quantify the scope of
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  Speaker 1: aging mechanical systems across all twenty two. District buildings officials
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  Speaker 1: said that assessment gives the district a clear district wide
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  Speaker 1: picture of which systems are approaching end of life, allowing
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  Speaker 1: leadership to plan ahead where possible and respond quickly when necessary,
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  Speaker 1: as is the case at Boulder Hill. The school district
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  Speaker 1: serves portions of Kendall, Will and Kane Counties