More lighting and infrastructure renovations are coming to Indian Prairie School District 204, as the district’s facilities overhaul continues.
On Monday, the district’s school board approved almost $1.4 million in LED lighting and infrastructure replacements, as well as building permits for flooring work at nine district elementary schools.
District 204 is currently undergoing a multi-year facilities overhaul, after voters in 2024 approved a proposal from the district to sell up to $420 million in bonds to pay for facility improvements.
The bonds are to be paid for using a continuation of an existing 37-cent property tax per $100 of equalized assessed value that would otherwise have expired at the end of 2026, meaning the tax rate for residents in terms of their contribution to capital projects will effectively remain flat as a result of the referendum question’s passage.
Since the referendum question passed, the district has been proceeding with work on projects across district buildings that are set to extend through 2032. The renovations include school-specific work at Waubonsie Valley High School, Neuqua Valley High School, Metea Valley High School, the Birkett Freshman Center and Gregory and Hill middle schools, along with district-wide safety and security upgrades, LED lighting installations and other infrastructure projects.
On Monday, District 204’s school board approved a contract with Performance Services for LED lighting replacements at 18 district elementary schools’ libraries, per a memo from the district. Metea Valley High School will also be getting a water heater and pool controls replaced as part of the contract, and Neuqua Valley High School will be getting an exhaust fan and intake hood for its boiler room.
The contract with Performance Services is set to come in at $1,388,758, per the district memo.
On Monday, the board also approved building permits in anticipation of flooring work that will be done over the summer at nine elementary schools.
In February, the board OK’d flooring replacements at Clow, Graham, Longwood, Peterson, White Eagle and Young elementary schools, excluding their gyms, and flooring replacements for the gyms — and in some cases the stage and multi-purpose rooms — at Brooks, Owen and Springbrook elementary schools.
The total cost for these flooring replacements is set to come to around $3.4 million, officials have said.
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