I was very pleased to be invited to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for District 46's new school building on Townline Road last Monday. When I was the Chairman of the Planning commission we insisted on the land donation by Concord Homes for the community school. The original site was to be for a K-4 facility.
Over time the plans by district 46 changed to make it a K-8 facility. They required more land to make this happen. We explored a land donation with Concord and their Madrona Ridge development in a partnership with the Round Lake Area Park District that ended up sharing land and facilities to bring the total land available to over 13 acres. This package is worth between $1.8 and $2.0 million in free land to the district.
The exciting part for the village is we are going to have two things. The first is a K-8 school near the Concord, Lakewood and Neumann homes development for our kids. Second is we will have a large Park District facility (the school gyms and classrooms) and the playing fields as well. All this is centrally located for our 120 and southwards residents.
So when I shoveled some dirt, with a young man named Nicholas who will attend the school in 2008, I was excited and pleased to see something I had been involved with for 6 years finally coming to fruition. Also in the center of the picture is Sue Facklam President of the 46 school board and to the right is Barb Daudelien President of the Round Lake Area Park District.
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