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Selma board: school facility-use pacts cover routine use and damage but not capital improvements
Summary
Board members reviewed expiring facility-use agreements with the elementary and middle schools and clarified that the year-to-year contracts cover use and damage but not upgrades such as scoreboards, which would require a separate agreement and funding.
Members of the Town of Selma Summer Recreation Advisory Board on May 20 reviewed expiring facility-use agreements with the town’s elementary and middle schools and discussed responsibilities for repairs, maintenance and capital improvements.
Board members noted the agreements are annual use contracts that list responsibilities for scheduling and for addressing damage caused by users. The agreements do not commit the board or town to fund or install capital improvements such as scoreboards or permanent lighting; those items would require separate agreements or budget allocations.
A Parks and Recreation staff member said the facility-use forms are intended to cover scheduling, contact information and liability for damage, and that “any improvements will be a different line item and a whole different discussion.” The staff member identified Josh Lisky as a contact whose email is listed in the packet for questions about the forms and scheduling.
Board members raised a recurring item from their “hopes and dreams” list — replacing a scoreboard — and asked whether that responsibility appears in the expiring documents. Staff confirmed it does not and that the schools expect a contact person to manage schedules for gyms and outdoor fields. If the board wants to pursue a scoreboard, lights or other capital work, staff said it would bring the matter back as a separate project for discussion with the school and council.
Board members also discussed field configurations at the middle school. Staff explained the field can be set to multiple base distances — 60 feet (commonly used for youth softball), 65 feet (adult slow-pitch) and 90 feet (standard baseball) — and that clay was ordered for a pitching mound.
The board agreed to forward the facility-use agreements to council in the usual process for renewal and to follow up separately on any capital-improvement proposals.
