As the district continues on with its multi-year facilities overhaul, more construction-related measures were approved by Indian Prairie School District 204’s board on Monday.
Included in those approvals are new scoreboards for the outdoor stadiums at the district’s three high schools, architectural services for turf fields at Neuqua Valley High School and Waubonsie Valley High School and new furniture for Waubonsie Valley.
District 204 is currently undergoing a major district-wide 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.
As part of the overall facilities overhaul, the district’s high schools are getting new turf fields, goal posts and resurfaced tracks, a district memo stated, in addition to new scoreboards.
The items approved Monday by the District 204 board included a bid proposal for the new outdoor stadium scoreboards at Neuqua Valley, Waubonsie Valley and Metea Valley, for a total of almost $800,000, according to the district. This work is slated to start in the spring and be completed in time for the start of the 2026-27 school year.
On Monday, the school board also OK’d architectural services for the new turf fields at Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley. The district is asking Wight & Company to design a second turf field at each site, with construction expected to begin in spring 2027 and be completed that fall.
Also approved Monday was a bid package for just under $250,000 for new furniture at Waubonsie Valley, per a district memo. As part of the renovations at the school to educational areas, the district is planning to purchase new classroom furniture and new cafeteria tables and chairs.
The district’s architect, Wight & Company, landed on a bid package totaling a little under $250,000 from Elk Grove Village-based Educational Environments, who have worked in the district in the past, per a letter from Wight included in Monday’s meeting materials.
mmorrow@chicagotribune.com
