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Trustees press for full stadium at Jesse Bethel as field construction advances
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Trustees pressed staff to ensure the Jesse Bethel athletic-field project supports games as well as practice, raising egress and lighting concerns; consultants said the project includes electrical infrastructure for future lighting but that adding lights would trigger separate CEQA review and extend the timeline.
Trustees at the Feb. 25 Vallejo City Unified study session pressed district staff and architects to make the Jesse Bethel athletic-field project capable of hosting competition, not only practice.
Dr. Young said the community expectation was for a full stadium and said he was concerned the current configuration limits events because of egress and lighting issues. "It should be a full fledged football field," Dr. Young said.
District staff and architects replied that the…
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