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Coultrap Will Come Down in August—at Cost of About $686,000

"Some type of memorial" will be put in place at the Coultrap site, another meeting with neighbors will be scheduled and the Fourth Street administrative facilities will take on the Coultrap name. The cost of demolition is $545,900.

The historic Coultrap building will fall sometime in August, and School District 304 will pay Alpine Deomolition $545,900 to do it.

The School District will pay another $140,200 for asbestos abatement at the school.

Those were two of the action items of the April 22 board meeting.

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The board also determined that it would rename—or "rededicate" the Fourth Street centraol office as the "Coultrap Educational Services Center" in memory of Harry Coultrap, the educator that played such an important role in the development of Geneva schools and its "tradition of excellence."

School Board President Mark Grosso said he would ask for assistance in creating "some sort of memorial" at the Coultrap facility site and asked that staff set up another neighborhood meeting to inform residents of the timeline and answer any questions about the demolition process.

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Holian Industries submitted the low big for the aesbestos removal, which is expected to start in May and be completed sometime in July, Grosso said. Demolition would start in July and hopefully be completed by Aug. 18.

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