Tamaqua awards $599K in contracts to upgrade track across from high school

BY SAM GALSKI
STAFF WRITER
sgalski@standardspeaker.com
Published: Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:12 AM EST
TAMAQUA — Tamaqua Area school directors recently awarded nearly $600,000 in contracts for athletic upgrades that include making the track at the stadium across from the high school into an all-weather track.

The school board awarded three contracts worth $599,900 to Grace Industries for work that includes installing the blue all-weather track and installing vinyl fencing along Stadium Road, Superintendent Carol Makuta said.

The project includes removing the old track, resurfacing, line painting and other improvements for pole vault and high jump.

The contracts include $549,900 for track installation, $12,600 for painting the track blue and $37,400 for installing black vinyl fencing, Makuta said.

The total cost is slightly below the $600,000 that the district anticipated spending, she said.

Work will begin the first week of May and should wrap up the first week of August, she said.

The blue track surface will be a “unique” addition that school directors and administrators were pleased to incorporate into the project, Makuta said.