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Board asks staff for cost estimates on field and parking-lot lighting upgrades at Maury, Jefferson and Dandridge sites
Summary
Coaches, board members and facilities staff discussed aging light fixtures and dark parking areas. Staff agreed to provide updated cost estimates; past rough figures for full field lighting projects topped $500,000.
Board members and coaches raised safety and usability concerns about inadequate field and parking-lot lighting at multiple campuses, including Maury Middle and Jefferson Middle, and a dark rear staff lot at Dandridge Elementary. Coach Bradley asked that lighting at Maury be placed on the business agenda for formal consideration, citing safety and the desire to have improved lighting for the next football season.
Facilities staff said prior estimates for comprehensive upgrades were in the range of several hundred thousand dollars (examples noted previously exceeded $500,000) and that the district has upgraded lighting at other sites in recent years. Appalachian Electric and the county maintenance team were mentioned as resources for estimating and installing new poles and fixtures. For the Dandridge rear staff lot, board members described the area as particularly dark and asked staff to meet with Appalachian Electric and report back; a rough per-pole estimate (wood pole with transformer) was discussed in the meeting as low hundreds of dollars for certain configurations but final costs depend on site-specific needs.
Staff committed to supplying cost estimates and scopes of work for review at the upcoming business session.
