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U-46 expense proposals set for Oct. 23 board vote

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 is set to vote on $528,131 in expenditure items at its upcoming meeting on Monday, Oct. 23.
  The items were presented at the Oct. 2 board meeting.
  The largest item is $385,303, from the operations and maintenance fund if approved, with Cunningham Recreation: Playcore to replace playground playsets at five elementary schools (Bartlett, Fox Meadow, Huff, Ronald D. O’Neal, Spring Trail).
  The proposal states that the district uses a playground inventory index to determine replacement of playground equipment based on “age, type, and condition of the equipment, as well as repairs both required and completed.” The sites scheduled for replacement currently have playsets between 22 and 29 years old and “are recommended for replacement due to their age and current condition.”
  Two contract renewals with McGraw-Hill were presented, both education fund items.
  The largest of the two is $59,661 for a one-year renewal of licenses for the 11th-grade United States history and dual language United States history resource US History and Geography-Modern Times. The other is a one-year license renewal for the 8th-grade United States history and dual language United States history resource Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States-Early Years.
  Additionally, an operations and maintenance fund item costing $26,629 with Peters Electric and Technology was presented. It was for emergency electrical repairs at Bartlett’s Liberty Elementary School that were already completed on Aug. 12.
  The proposal stated that “electrical feeds that run underground… failed and an electrical service shutdown was required to replace them.”
  “All five electrical mains were replaced at Liberty Elementary School prior to the start of the school year providing uninterrupted electrical service, allowing staff and students to be welcomed back to a fully operational, and a comfortable learning environment,” the proposal stated.