School request is too extravagant

Posted October 31, 2024 11:34 am

CUSD 200 in the Wheaton and Warrenville area would like voters to pass a referendum to spend $151 million to update and renovate three middle schools in the district. That’s $51 million per school. That translates in cost to the equivalent of building more than 50 new $1 million homes per school. That cost equivalence is mind boggling. I am reminded of the extravagant overbuilding of Hubble Middle School in earlier years.

District communications about the plan tout savings to be realized in paying down debt with this referendum, but that is different from the cost for the three remodels. A hundred fify-one $1 million dollar homes equivalence for remodeling three schools. Remove some of the extravagance that leads to such a high cost and I might consider voting yes. For now, however, I will vote no for the plan as it currently stands.

Ken List

Wheaton

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