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Expense proposals set for upcoming board vote

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 is set to vote on $3 million in expenditure proposal, all operations and maintenance or health life safety funds, at its upcoming meeting on Monday, Feb. 7.
  The items were presented on Jan. 24.
  The largest item was $1.1 million with Evans and Son Blacktop, lowest of four bids, for track improvements at Streamwood High School. If approved, the work would start in May and have substantial completion by Aug. 15.
  The proposal states the “asphalt base and rubber surfacing,” installed in 2002, “are in extremely poor condition. The current condition poses a safety hazard and has been deemed unusable for competition.”
  A proposal for fire alarm replacement at Streamwood’s Tefft Middle School has a cost of $761,000 with Kelso-Burnett Co., lowest of five bids, with work scheduled to start Sept. 6 this year and substantial completion on June 1, 2023. The proposal states alarms have not been updated since 1964.
  Fire alarm replacement at Wayne Elementary School is also being sought costing $339,880 with iWire Technologies, lowest of five bids, with work scheduled to start on Feb. 8 and substantial completion by July 25 this year. The proposal states the current alarm system is “at the end of its life expectancy.”
  Costing $446,900 with Associated Electrical Contractors, the lowest of two bids, the district is seeking to replace auditorium lights at Bartlett High School. Work would begin on June 7 with substantial completion by July 27.
  “Original to the building, the stage light dimming system is antiquated and starting to fail within Bartlett High School’s auditorium,” the proposal states. “The manufacturer of the dimming system is no longer in business and replacement parts for this system are increasingly hard to find. Additionally, less than half of the house light fixtures are currently functional and replacement bulbs for these fixtures are no longer available from any manufacturer.”
  For a parking lot project at Elgin’s Larsen Middle School, the district is asking for $395,649 to go to Schroeder Asphalt Services, lowest of nine bids. Work would start June 7 and be substantially complete on July 27.
  The project is to prepare for a City of Elgin pavement reconstruction project expected to start in 2024 that would leave a bus drop off lane location unusable. This project would “create a secondary exit from the parking lot,” the proposal states.