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Board weighs $73,000 design request for multipurpose indoor sports facility; Title IX risk flagged
Summary
District staff recommended designing a multipurpose facility and restrooms at the baseball/softball complex and asked for $73,000 for design; Superintendent Reade warned exclusive use of the current batting cage could create Title IX exposure, prompting debate over sharing existing spaces and whether to approve design funds now.
Mister Simpson, who presented the capital projects packet, recommended replacing the existing batting-cage footprint with a code-compliant, multipurpose indoor facility and adding restrooms, and asked the board to authorize about $73,000 from this year’s capital funds to pay for design work.
The administration framed the structure as a multiuse building that could serve baseball, softball, band and other programs and said using the existing concrete pad could reduce utility costs. Simpson told the board the requested $73,000 includes a contingency above the estimated $69,000 design cost "because…
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