The Board of Education for Galesburg CUSD #205 approved an updated facility use agreement with the City of Galesburg Monday night.
The district had already approved an agreement with the city but there were some changes made to the agreement, including extending it from one to five years.
Another change was the city agreeing to only pay to light three of the eight tennis courts. Superintendent John Asplund detailed the changes.
“This was one of the hangups that took several months and then there [were] city manager changes, which everyone knows about, so that’s taken a lot of it too. The city did not want to pay for the five courts that we decided to light up that were not currently lit up.”
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Asplund said that the bathrooms in the new facility will be open for public use on a “key-lock out basis.” He said the rest of the facility will only be for school use.
The tennis courts were just resurfaced and the lighting work got underway this week.
The school board also took action to approve Legat Architects to conduct the district’s 10-year Health Life Safety survey.
The school district is required by law to conduct this survey, according to Asplund. “We have to, by law, every 10 years go through with a licensed architect and find any health, life, safety concerns that would exist in buildings. That’s what was largely the impetus of… all the building projects that we’ve had.”
Asplund emphasized that just because the renovation work was done, it doesn’t mean the district can opt out of the required survey.
This contract was to start that process over again.
