Town officials have approved a $350,000 contract with a Monroe-based company to repave some New Canaan High School parking lots as well as to repair a playground at South School that’s expected to get more use this coming academic year.
The work will include repaving the parking lots in front of the high school as well as one on its south side near Dunning Stadium, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. The “band lot” fronting Farm Road also could be done for an additional approximately $10,000, he told the Board of Selectmen at their most recent meeting.
At South School, the project will include part of a playground out front of the school.
“That playground is in disrepair,” Mann told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held Aug. 4 via videoconference. “Given the concerns of the coronavirus and trying to separate students and give them additional possible areas outside where they can hold classroom activities, we want to incorporate that, or the BOE asked us to incorporate that into the project.”
First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kit Devereaux and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of a $349,908.95 contract with Grasso Construction.
The “east lots” of NCHS, located behind the school, are in good shape, Mann said.
Asked whether the parking lots at NCHS had been redesigned following an renovation, Mann said, yes.
“That is why you have that serpentine drive traffic calming measure,” he said. “To try to slow traffic down. The majority of the problem is volume and the fact that the ingress and egress both back out to Farm Road and they are stop-controlled at either intersection.”
A planned access road running from the southernmost school lot to Waveny is expected to help ease that congestion.