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Board urges county to consider repaying booster-club debts after Westmoreland principal’s plea
Summary
After public testimony from Westmoreland High School Principal Rick Duffer, the Sumner County Board of Education unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution asking the Sumner County Commission to consider paying off outstanding athletic booster-club debts and to consider equitable recognition for programs that invested private funds.
The Sumner County Board of Education voted unanimously Feb. 18 to approve a nonbinding resolution encouraging the Sumner County Commission to consider paying off outstanding athletic booster-club debt after Westmoreland High School Principal Rick Duffer described years of facility shortfalls and unpaid loans.
Duffer told the board that booster supporters borrowed to replace a condemned field house and to install lighting, and that the boosters still owe money on those projects. "We installed those at a cost of $67,000," he said, "and currently our baseball boosters still owe $49,000 on those lights." He said the school support organization had taken out loans and…
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