La Salle County Nursing Home’s dining room overhaul estimated at just under $400,000

An architect’s budgetary estimate puts a full remodel of the La Salle County Nursing Home dining room at “just under $400,000,” Executive Director Dawn St. Clair-Davis told a county committee Nov. 9. That is far more than she had planned to spend.“I wasn’t anticipating $400,000. I was anticipating cosmetically about $150,000,” St. Clair-Davis told the La Salle County Nursing Home and VAC committee.She said about $70,000 of the estimate is for architectural and other fees.The committee took no vote. St. Clair-Davis said she was seeking members’ opinions on whether to do the work and how. “That’s why I’m talking about it, not asking for motions,” she said.The estimate covers replacing the ceiling, upgrading heating and cooling and removing air conditioning units off the dining room floor and into the ceiling, adding a beverage station and storage, and replacing floors, window treatments, tables and chairs.St. Clair-Davis said the room is “where people go three times a day for the most pa