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Parents, volunteers urge school board to halt stadium naming-rights deal
Summary
Multiple parents and volunteers told the Martin County School Board that a proposed commercial naming-rights and district advertising program is vague, risks diverting funds from school-level athletics and would undercut booster-club fundraising.
Several parents and volunteer boosters urged the Martin County School Board on May 6 to stop or substantially rewrite a proposed naming-rights and district advertising agreement, saying the plan is too vague and would pull existing sponsor support away from individual schools.
At a public-comment period before the board’s business, an unidentified resident said the plan would “rob Peter to pay Paul,” and warned that the contract language is “very, very vague” about where naming-rights revenue would flow and who would maintain sponsored equipment such as electronic scoreboards. “You've already paid him,” the speaker said. “When this was first brought up ... we said very carefully to the superintendent and to Jen, work with your groups that…
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