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Santaorita principal urges faster turf installation, cites safety and equity concerns
Summary
Tamara Ray, principal at Santaorita High School, asked the bond oversight committee to move her school up in the turf-field installation sequence to coincide with scheduled summer waterline and sewer work, saying ongoing drainage and field deterioration pose safety risks and create competitive inequities with other east-side high schools.
Tamara Ray, principal of Santaorita High School, asked the Tucson Unified School District bond oversight committee on Feb. 19 to reconsider the schedule for installing synthetic turf at comprehensive high schools so that Santaorita’s turf is installed during the same summer window as planned waterline and sewer replacements.
Ray told the committee the campus is scheduled for a temporary shutdown this summer for district-supported domestic-waterline and sewer work and said…
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