New Trier’s Northfield Campus to Get New Fence for About $131,000

The chain link fence around New Trier High School’s will be replaced this summer at a cost of more than $131,000.

The fence, which separates the campus both from roads and neighboring properties, has concrete footings and posts that were originally installed in 1967. Over time, the footings have “heaved” out of the ground, according John Nieweem, the director of physical plant services for New Trier Township High School District 203. This has raised the level of the fence and created a gap, which causes problems when, for example, a ball rolls underneath and students or staff must leave the school property to retrieve it.

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The new fence will be a galvanized steel chain link fence coated with black PVC.

TruLink Fence was awarded the contract, having submitted the lowest bid of nine contractors who wanted to do the project. Including design fees, the total cost of the project will be about $148,000, well below the original budget of $216,000.

The school board unanimously approved the contract at its Feb. 21 meeting.

The fence project is the last item that was included in a $3.9 million package of life-safety work that was approved by the Illinois State Board of Education in 2007, according to memo Nieweem wrote to the school board.

At the meeting, School Board President John Myefski asked if the old perimeter fence would be recycled.

Nieweem said that recycling the fence was part of the contract specifications.

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