April 25 Board Meeting -- Capitalizing

Look! An evening with not-too-much scheduled! Let's see, what haven't I written about from the last Board meeting.....

The Summer Capital Improvement Plan was introduced at the April 25th meeting. Supt. Hill noted that the District will be spending $9000 more on capital improvement than was spent last year, but remarked that $7000 was for installation of the gym ceiling at Algonquin Road School (ARS).

Board member Bob Nunamaker wondered what the life-span of the mobile units outside ARS is. Supt. Hill said that the mobiles will last a number of years. His last school district, he said, had 36-year-old mobiles. He did caution that, when District 3 bought our mobiles, we bought the cheapest mobiles we could, thinking we wouldn't use them very long. He said that might be an issue in the coming years.

About the roof at ARS, Hill said that we've had some leakage above the 1st and 2nd grade rooms, as well as above the art room, and that will have some cost to repair when that improvement is budgeted. He said that the high roof above the school library is also in need of repair.

The breakdown for capital improvements, which was approved unanimously by the Board, is as follows. Items in bold are considered big-ticket items:

Fox River Grove Middle School

1. Painting projects - Don Lewan $500
a) Paint and scrape soffit in room 203
b) Paint rooms 108, 103, 106, 107, MP restrooms, bridge hallway
c) Touch paint locker rooms, gym, and restrooms
d) Paint exterior and interior doors
e) Paint exterior railing as needed
f) Paint kitchen

2. Complete ball ledge in new gym - Rick Miller $100

3. Clean and discard old A.V. equipment in meter room - Linda $0

4. Refinish floors in gym and multipurpose room-specialty floors - Tim Dilsaver $2,852

5. Repair door in meter room and add master key lock - Rick $100

6. Paint boys locker room floor - Rick $150

7. Replace shades in room 203 - Rick, price and order; Linda, install $100

8. Tuck point southeast corner of old wing - Rick arranging contractor $2,200

9. Repair cracks in asphalt - Jerry $100

Total for FRGMS $6,402


Algonquin Road School

1. Install gym ceiling - Rick and Jerry FY05 $7,000

2. Repair cracks and seal all asphalt areas - Jerry $3,000

3. Painting projects - Don $900
a) Paint nurse's room and restroom
b) Paint front office hallway
c) Paint conference room and shelves
d) Paint teacher's lounge
e) Paint restrooms - Kindergarten (2), ECE, Primary resource
f) Paint table frames in cafeteria
g) Touch paint mobiles in repaired areas

4. Replace damaged floor tile in room 104 and 3rd hallway - Rick $50

5. Replace damaged screens and latches - Rick $300

6. Construct overhangs for mobiles and repair skirting - Rick arranging contractor $7,500

7. Replace awnings on mobiles - Rick arranging contractor $800

8. Level wood chips and trim trees and bushes around school - Jorge $0

9. Replace concrete around light pole in front walk - Rick $100

10. Complete replacement of roof drain covers - Rick $500

11. Paint gas pipes on roof - Rick $250

12. Replace sink cabinet in room 205 - Rick $300

13. Repair and paint both custodial closets - Rick $300

14. Replace lighting in Library - Rick $2,500

Total for ARS: $23,500

Grand Total: $29,902


Summer employment

Don Lewan - painting ($12.55/hr; 40 days - $4,016)
Tim Dilsaver - general ($7.00/hr; 40 days - $2,240)
Adam Sadik - general ($7.00/hr; 40 days - $2,240)
Derek Haselhorst - general ($7.00/hr; 40 days - $2,240)
Andrew Zasadil - general ($7.00/hr; 40 days - $2,240)
Jackie Bowman - Secretarial and Teacher Aide ($7.00/hr; 40 days - $2,240)