Mobile classrooms at Barrington Middle School-Station campus, pictured May 27, 2021, will be replaced with a permanent building addition as part of a Barrington School District 220 capital improvement plan. Similar units at Grove Elementary School will be sold to a Southfield, Michigan company, the school board approved at the March 1, 2022 board meeting. (Graydon Megan / Pioneer Press)
Six mobile classrooms at Grove Elementary School in Barrington will be sold for $85,000, Barrington School District 220 officials said.
The classrooms were constructed in 2018 to accommodate an increase in enrollment but are no longer needed since a new school addition is scheduled to be completed this summer, according to Superintendent Robert Hunt.
With the addition, students will be brought back into the school building starting next school year. As a result, the school board voted 7-0 at the March 1 board meeting to sell the mobile units and have them removed from the school campus.
“There has been conversation over the years and planning that we potentially use that space during construction,” Hunt told the board. “As bids changed, timelines changed, they are not necessary and I thank [Assistant Superintendent for Business Services David Bein] for finding a buyer and negotiating what I think is a great price, fair price. And we don’t have to incur the cost of dismantling those – that’s a positive of $150,000 to the district.”
Hunt said the removal of the mobile classrooms this summer is part of the district’s construction plans. According to school district staff reports, there is no need for the six, 70′ x 70′ mobile classrooms elsewhere in the district, making them surplus property. The process of disposing of surplus equipment is for staff to first attempt to sell it or donate it.
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