HUNTLEY – The District 158 board soon will start making decisions on expanding Huntley High School to accommodate an influx of students, after administrators recently got their hands on a long-awaited $39.4 million state grant.

The state told Superintendent John Burkey and others in February they finally would receive the 2003 multimillion-dollar grant that was intended to help pay construction costs on the Square Barn Road campus and Marlowe Middle School, completed in 2005.

But after wading through massive paperwork, the district officially got its 9-year-old grant in late August.