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St. Cloud Schools complete wide-ranging summer facilities work; custodial staff credited
Summary
District officials outlined a long list of end-of-summer construction and maintenance projects—roof replacements, resurfaced parking lots and athletic courts, new cafeteria flooring, restroom upgrades and lead-fixture replacements—saying the work was done without referendum dollars and relied on long-term facilities budgeting.
Matthew Boucher, St. Cloud Area School District 742 executive director of operations, told the school board the district completed dozens of construction and maintenance projects over the summer designed to create the "preconditions for learning." He described roofing work, new cafeteria flooring with sound-absorbing surfaces at several schools, full replacement of tennis courts at multiple sites (with new striping for tennis and pickleball), parking-lot crack-filling and restriping, replacement of fluorescent lighting with LED, and enlarged and reconfigured health offices at North.
Boucher said the work was largely funded through existing facilities budgets, not referendum dollars, and credited district finance staff and…
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