Pike new home of D-11 records

       Pike Elementary, which closed in May as a school, will be used in part for the School District 11 records management group and random storage.
       According to Mike Poore, a deputy superintendent, the group's main duties are looking after the district's official school documents.
       The group had been located within the D-11 building complex north of downtown. Space had already been tight there, so when the Board of Education closed nine schools in May, meaning their boxes of files needed to be stored elsewhere, “it created a reason to move records to another place right now,” Poore said.
       Pike, at 2510 N. Chestnut St., had been a school since opening in 1956.
       Records will need up to five classrooms for all its materials. The department has three employees, plus occasional temporary laborers, according to D-11 Chief Financial Officer Glenn Gustafson.
       As for the rest of the school - including the former library and gym and several other classrooms - the district has been negotiating with potential tenants, but nothing has been finalized as yet.

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