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Trustees press for faster repairs at Springstead locker rooms, call condition a Title IX concern
Summary
Board members at an informal Hernando County School Board meeting described Springstead High School locker rooms as outdated, inequitable and in need of quicker renovation; staff was asked to check for existing plans and to pursue interim fixes while design work proceeds.
Trustees at an informal Hernando County School Board meeting pressed district staff to accelerate repairs and planning for the locker rooms at Springstead High School, citing long‑standing inequities and health and hygiene problems.
"Springstead has locker rooms that are very old and quite frankly disgusting," board member Laurie Hawkins said, describing nonfunctional showers and a smaller girls' locker room compared with the boys'. Hawkins asked that locker‑room work be moved up from the district's Phase 5 schedule.
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