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Council approves $25,000 district transfer to Northridge High for soccer field
Summary
Councilman Crow received permission to move $25,000 of his remaining district infrastructure allocation to Tuscaloosa City Schools as part of a public‑private effort to build a soccer field at Northridge High; staff confirmed no procedural restriction on rerouting the funds and the council approved the transfer by voice vote.
Councilman Crow asked fellow council members to approve reallocating $25,000 of his remaining district infrastructure funds to help Northridge High School build a boys and girls soccer field through a public‑private partnership.
"An opportunity has come up that Northridge High School is wanting to build a soccer field for their boys and girls teams there," Councilman Crow said, asking to move the money from the remaining corpus of an earlier $500,000 district allocation.
Staff confirmed the funding is available in the district corpus and that the original surplus transfer did not legally bind the funds to infrastructure projects. "All we would be doing is moving it out of the RFFI... back into the general fund and then, having a funding agreement with the city school system," Miss Standridge said.
A soccer parent and constituent thanked the council for the proposal during discussion. The council moved, seconded and approved the $25,000 transfer by voice vote.
The council did not provide a detailed schedule or total private‑sector fundraising target for the school partnership during the discussion; staff said the money would be disbursed under a funding agreement with the Tuscaloosa City Schools.
