Alternate locations for parking and drop off/pick up will be available for Barrington High School students when school resumes next week, as a result of the closure of Hart Road. The closure, necessary while workers build a new bridge over Flint Creek, is expected to continue through Nov. 4.
As Barrington High School students and parents prepare for the upcoming academic year, school and village officials are setting up alternate parking and drop off/pick up locations needed because of the closure of Hart Road.
A main access point to the school, the road is expected to be closed until Nov. 4 while workers construct a new bridge over Flint Creek.
Alternate locations, where students can park or be dropped off and then get a shuttle bus to school, include the downtown Metra lot; St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 720 Dundee Ave and the parking lot at The Barrington office complex, 540 W. Northwest Highway.
The Barrington village board Monday approved a licensing agreement with Bourns Inc., the owner of the office center. Bourns is allowing use of up to 125 parking spaces and a spot for shuttles to pick up students beginning on the first day of school, Aug. 22.
The agreement runs through Nov. 30, although it will continue on a month-to-month basis for up to six months, if necessary. The village will pay a fee of $7,500 and be reimbursed by Barrington Community Unit 220 School District. The school district also will indemnify the village on the property.
Marie Hansen, Barrington’s director of development services, told the village board Monday that parking permit sales are underway. Thus far, she said, 31 students have signed up for the Metra parking lot, 29 for the Bourns location, and 20 have requested space at St. Matthew.
Parking permits are $100 each. Applications have been sent directly to the students’ families by the school district.
The village also is encouraging students to take regularly scheduled school buses.
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