Schools
Board Of Education To Be Asked To Spend $2.2 Million For Stadiums
Replacement of natural turf with synthetic and replacement of existing synthetic tracks.
Oconee County school administrators will ask the Board of Education next month to approve spending $2.2 million to replace the natural turf in the system’s two high school stadiums and replace the synthetic tracks around the two fields.
The move to synthetic from natural turf is to accommodate increased use of the fields for football, soccer and lacrosse.
Replacement is to start on April 15 at North Oconee High School and then move to Oconee County High School on May 15.
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Work is scheduled to be be completed by July 1, and no disruption of sports schedules is anticipated.
School administrators will be asking the Board to accept a low bid of $2,214,850 from Sports Turf Company of Whitesburg, in Carroll County, west of Atlanta.
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For more on the story, including a video of the Jan. 22 meeting of the Board, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: School Superintendent Jason Branch.
