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Waterford district to fix playground hills at Beaumont and Donaldson Hills after safety concerns; cost estimated at $37,000
Summary
Assistant Superintendent Hildebrandt told the Waterford School District board that playground mounds installed in 2024 at Beaumont and Donaldson Hills are not supporting grass, have become muddy and unsafe and will be leveled and replaced; district plans to use bond contingency funds for an estimated $37,000 in work.
Assistant Superintendent Hildebrandt said the Waterford School District will remove and regrade mound-style playground features at Beaumont and Donaldson Hills and replace a slide at Beaumont after students exposed structural elements and created deep holes in the soil.
Hildebrandt said, “Beaumont and Donaldson Hills were both renovated with new playgrounds in the 2024. Each of those sites have moundy hills that are just not conducive to grass growing…At Beaumont, there's actually a built in hillside slide…that slide originally from the bonded monies…was $5,017. …That slide…kids are digging in underneath that slide…exposing some of the bars underneath.”
The district estimates the…
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