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GES is getting a new fence
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Posted on May 18 2012
By Clarissa V. David
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The Home of the Mallards is getting a new fence.
Garapan Elementary School principal Paulette Sablan said Wednesday that the island’s biggest public elementary school will soon have an 8-foot high concrete fence with metal railings, replacing their old fence made of chain links.
“This has been the plan for years. It’s just that the funding was never available but now it is, so they started the project,” she told Saipan Tribune, adding that the project is funded with capital improvement project monies.
Rommel Mostales of the Public School System CIP Office said in a separate interview that the project began on April 16 and will run for four months with a price tag of $115,900. DKK Inc. is the project contractor.
Both Mostales and Sablan said that the project has two phases. Phase 1, which is in progress, involves the replacement of the school fence along Beach Road. Phase 2 covers the school’s main entrance along Orchid St.
Sablan said the old chain links, if found to be in good condition, will be used to replace the fence at the back side of the campus, which has been damaged by the overgrown tree that they recently cut.
According to Sablan, the new fence would make Garapan Elementary School “more aesthetically and architecturally pleasing.”
“We’re in the business district so we want to make sure that our campus looks inviting and enticing to go along with the rest of the business community surrounding it,” she said.
Sablan noted that the chain link fence is hard to maintain since overgrown trees tend to go between them. “At least with the concrete poles, it could prevent that from happening,” she added.
