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Budget committee will consider Westmoreland High field-house loan forgiveness as part of next year's budget

2111937 · January 15, 2025
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Summary

After a public plea from Westmoreland High principal Rick Duffer for use of hospital-sale funds to help repay a community-funded field-house loan, the committee moved to consider the request during next year's regular budget process rather than grant relief immediately.

Rick Duffer, principal of Westmoreland High School, told the Sumner County Budget Committee he and members of the Westmoreland Quarterback Club took on personal loan obligations to finance a field house and asked the county to use funds from the sale of a hospital to help retire that debt.

Duffer described a roughly $274,000 outstanding loan that community members signed for after inflation made a…

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