Lincoln-Way High School District 210 Supt. Lawrence Wyllie, school officials and members of a volunteer steering committee have been meeting with community groups to outline the case for a referendum measure to finance expanding the growing school district’s facilities.
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Voters will be asked on March 17 to approve a $60 million bond issue to pay for remodeling the freshman-sophomore East Campus in Frankfort and the junior-senior Central Campus in New Lenox into two, separate four-year high schools.
The plan calls for adding classrooms and a swimming pool at each site and building athletic fields and a fine arts center at the New Lenox school.
School board members expressed some preferences about what to do if the referendum measure is approved.
Keeping the senior class together in the first year of the proposed split is the “least disruptive” option, board member John Slack said.
Board member Jay Fagan suggested reserving the red-and-black school colors and the knight logo for the original Lincoln-Way High School building in New Lenox.