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Westmoreland principal asks Sumner County to consider using hospital-sale funds to help repay community loan for field house
Summary
Westmoreland High School principal Rick Duffer asked the county to forgive or help repay a loan used to build a 50-year‑old field house replacement; the Budget Committee voted to consider the request as part of next year's budget process.
Rick Duffer, principal of Westmoreland High School, told the Sumner County Budget Committee that community members and a school support nonprofit took on personal debt to build a new field house and are now struggling with loan payments. He asked the county to consider using funds from the sale of the county hospital to help repay the debt.
Duffer said community members signed notes—some secured by home equity—to borrow roughly $300,000 when inflation made a longer fundraising timeline untenable. He told the committee: “I am here…
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