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Board approves kitchen equipment and classroom furniture projects; Allied Book Co. contracted to dispose of outdated textbooks
Summary
Trustees approved replacement of serving lines and a combi oven at Eads (funded from food service), a middle-school classroom furniture purchase funded from bond proceeds, and contracted Allied Book Company to remove obsolete curricular materials; construction updates for theater and athletic facilities were presented by operations staff.
The School Town of Munster Board of School Trustees approved several facilities and equipment projects at its meeting, including kitchen upgrades, classroom furniture replacement and curricular-materials disposal.
Director of operations Justin Begley described a project to replace aging serving lines and a combi oven at Eads (project 20250331). Begley said the combi oven "takes water and heat" to control moisture and time for varied recipes and that the equipment and serving lines are "in dire need of being replaced." He said the district will fund that project from the food-service account. The board approved the Eads serving line and combi-oven replacement 5–0 following a motion.
Trustees also approved a furniture purchase (project 20250530) to complete classroom furniture replacement at the middle school; Begley said the buyout completes orders for 20 classrooms and follows earlier purchases that replaced teacher desks. The board recorded a unanimous vote on that item.
Administrators recommended using Allied Book Company to pick up and dispose of obsolete curriculum materials after textbook-adoption cycles; the board approved that contract 5–0.
Begley also provided construction and facilities updates: fine-arts classroom flooring and ceilings are installed; theater seating is scheduled to arrive later in the month with stage work ongoing; Wilbur Wright bleacher demolition and reinstallation were underway with an anticipated completion date of June 20; a 30 Fifth Street parking-lot and storage project was out to public bid with an opening scheduled for June 26; and two buses are expected in the fall with an Indiana State Police inspection planned.
All projects approved tonight were presented with funding sources and implementation notes; trustees asked no substantive funding changes at the meeting.
