Revamped Baseball Field Gets $150K in School District Funding
The district's $150,000 contribution will help the baseball boosters organization pay for a $250,000 artificial turf installation in the diamond's infield.
Plans for a new Cahill Park baseball field are likely to move forward now that the Whitefish Bay School Board has granted $150,000 to the $400,000 project. The baseball field will be torn up next year for the storm water detention project the village plans to undertake. With the opportunity to renovate, Friends of Bay Baseball plans to install an artificial turf infield, a warning track, a natural grass outfield, a new scoreboard in right field, an improved concession stand and permanent concrete seating curved around the backstop area. Two dugouts are also planned. School Board members wanted to make sure that their $150,000 contribution would specifically go toward the $250,000 price tag for installing an artificial turf infield, foul …
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A WFB Resident
7:16 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
So no there is no excuse for funding disability aids over the summer so all children with can partake in local Pack and Rec activities. The Park and Rec Departmemt will then meet the criteria of their mission statement and is governed by the school district who claims they have no funding. So what do you say School Board? Can we include all children? more ›