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$1.8m Shift in Galesburg School District Budget
A problem the state of Illinois found with Galesburg High School over the summer is causing what District-205's finance expert calls a nearly two-million dollar change in the district's budget for the coming year.

Assistant Superintendent Paul Woelke says the overall tax levy isn't expected to change, but some money will be shifted around so that an asbestos problem in the Learning Center wing of GHS can be fixed once the school year ends.

Woelke says it started when a state inspector noticed something that looked new in a ceiling tile in a room behind the learning center being used to house some of the district's technology. "(The inspector) also looked at that room at the high school, and identified in a hole in an asbestos ceiling tile that he construed to be a recent cut," Woelke said. "There were still shavings or debris from the cutting of the hole lying underneath the hole."

Woelke says the district determined that the hole in the tile had been there for a long time, in what before that was an unused room. But he says that is leading the district to move up plans to replace a number of tiles in that area of GHS, along with some other renovations in that area, that had been planned for future years.

The District-205 budget is to be voted on Monday night following a public hearing on it.
09 05 08 by Newsroom
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