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Franklin Regional board approves authorization to pursue $10M field renovation financing after wide-ranging presentation and public comment
Summary
The school board heard vendor presentations and community testimony, and approved consent agenda items that include authorization to pursue up to $10.5 million in design-build financing for a multi-site athletic field renovation. Officials said the plan would be phased to limit budgetary impact and could add roughly 1.93 mills in an illustrative scenario.
The Franklin Regional School Board on Nov. 17 authorized district staff to proceed with the next steps in a proposed athletics field renovation after a year‑and‑a‑half planning process, extensive vendor presentations and more than an hour of public comment.
The project package presented to the board covers three main areas — Haymaker (baseball), the softball/tennis complex and a new multipurpose turf field — and was offered to the board under a design‑build procurement model. District staff and their athletic leaders argued the renovations are necessary because existing fields are poor drainage, cause lost practices and games, and are increasingly costly to maintain.
"These fields would be a tremendous asset to our student athletes as well as our community," the district athletic director said, summarizing the programmatic benefits of added turf and multipurpose surfaces that would allow simultaneous practices and reduce weather cancellations.
Tarkett Sports representatives (Mike Rufo and a regional manager) described a…
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