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U-46 Board approves virus-related expenses


By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 unanimously approved of four emergency proposals totaling $666,456, all presented and voted on in one meeting, at its meeting on Monday, July 20 which was held electronically due to COVID-19.
  The two largest items were COVID-19 related to purchase hand washing stations as well as face masks and thermometers. Both will be paid for through the education fund.
  The district will spend $325,351 to purchase 162 foot-pump hand washing stations from Central Restaurant Products and 126 electric-pump stations from School Nurse Supply, Inc. Additionally, the proposal states $12,672 will be spent to purchase paper towel and soap dispensers.
  Neither bidder was the low bidder which the district could have saved taxpayers $93,000 with the lowest bids, but the proposal stated “no sample(s) submitted” by the lowest bidders.
  “The Plant Operations team has done a review of all buildings to determine what classrooms contained sinks and which ones did not,” the proposal states. “This bid is the result of those findings and the need to purchase these additional units to ensure access for frequent hand washing.”
  The district will spend $263,920 for masks and thermometers including $96,000 with Gnomedica LLC for 800,000 children’s masks, $87,200 with Maybe Mars, LLC for 800,000 staff/student masks and $73,920 for 44,000 digital thermometers and $6,800 for 5,000 special needs masks from CFJ Manufacturing.
  “We will have sufficient stock of masks for all students and staff,” the proposal states. “This will also include a thermometer for all students and staff to self-check at home prior to arriving at school.”
  The proposal included six pages of bidders, and board member Melissa Owens asked if the products from the lowest bids were reliable to which Bruce Phelps, senior business official, said: “Every vendor had to submit a sample with their bid. So, we’ve taken those masks and reviewed them to make sure they’re the quality we’re looking for.”
  Two repairs that were already completed were approved, both from the operations and maintenance fund.
  A sump pump installation at Elgin’s Larkin High School on June 23 at a cost of $40,784 with T & J Plumbing, Inc. because of the “presence of water in the electrical room,” according to the proposal.
  Work began on July 20 on classroom partitions at Streamwood’s Glenbrook Elementary School at a cost of $36,400 with Partition Pros, Inc.
  “During the annual operable partition inspection at Glenbrook Elementary School, it was found that the headers were cracked,” the proposal states. “Because the header is responsible for holding the operable walls in place, this breach creates a potential for the partitions to fall off the track. Thus, these headers need to be reinforced or replaced as needed.”




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