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Prescott council approves 25-year lease with OJBF Football Club to install artificial turf at Ken Lindley Field
Summary
The City of Prescott approved an ordinance and contract with OJBF Football Club to install and maintain artificial turf at Ken Lindley Field under a 25-year agreement, with city officials citing water savings and event scheduling steps to mitigate neighborhood impacts.
The Prescott City Council voted 5-0 Oct. 14 to adopt ordinance No. 2025-1912 and approve City Contract No. 2020Six-one14 with OJBF Football Club (OJBFC), an Arizona 501(c)(3), to install and maintain an artificial turf system at Ken Lindley Park.
Council members and staff told the council that the project will replace the park’s natural turf with a three-layer sand-and-rubber field system, which the city and the applicant say will substantially reduce annual water use and support organized tournaments and programming.
City parks staff said the campus has about 150 on-site parking spaces and approximately 50 additional on-street spaces if parked correctly. “So in general, that space has about 200 parking spaces,” Christy Diaz Trahan, parks and recreation director, told the council.…
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