Crete-Monee school district officials plan to build a 2,600-square-foot addition to the center serving the 5th and 6th grades in time for the 1997-98 school year.
School district officials contend the Crete-Monee Intermediate Center is crowded, with five special education teachers squeezed into one classroom.
A report from the school district’s architectural firm, South Holland-based H.A. Jacobs & Associates, estimates the three-classroom expansion of the Intermediate Center on Crete-Monee Road would cost $150,000.
School board members approved the construction proposal during their regular meeting last week.
Crete-Monee school district officials opened the Intermediate Center School at the beginning of the 1996-97 school year, calling it the solution to crowded classrooms and districtwide busing problems. Renovations in the former Balmoral Elementary School added a computer resource center.