•October 21, 2015•

By Mike Brothers

Aging heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems and spongy rooftops were discussed at the Sullivan Community Unit #300 school board meeting October 13.

Maintenance director Kevin Landrus explained the elementary, middle and high school had places where water had pooled, damaging roofs.

He also pointed out air conditioning systems were gaining age and becoming costly to maintain, noting that two units on the high school gym were not working at all.

Mike Zellers of Graham and Hyde Architects presented a power point showing the condition of the roofs and the HVAC systems that are located there.

Landrus said that the HVAC system replacements would need to be completed before new roofs are installed.

Zellers and HVAC engineer Frank Maris pointed out that the middle school steam heating system is slated for upgrading to hot water heat such as in the other two buildings, with the air conditioning systems for all buildings submitted to the Illinois State School Board for approval under Health Life Safety guidelines.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.