As discussed at Pine Tree ISDÂ School Board Meeting on July 12, 2010…
No decisions were made tonight as to the issue of Pirate Stadium. Pretty good crowd went home with nothing decided. There is a big push to reopen the stadium for this football season. It seems they will decide at a meeting next Tuesday whether to do the repairs to the pressbox only. Any other repairs to anything dealing with the 5 major functions of the stadium, seating, parking, ingress/egress, restrooms, or water fountains would kick in mandatory ADA repairs costing over $4 million. There is a feeling on the board that too much money is being spent to hold all the football games at other area stadiums. Also discussed was trying to identify sites for a new stadium for their consulting firm so that a better picture of what can be done come next bond election. It was mentioned that any other site than the current location will cost several million in construction.Several million for dirt work on property already owned by the district. This is going to be an ugly issue for some time because the issue has been ignored for so long(dating back to excavation for a stadium behind the current high school field house when the new high school was built).
Robert Bailey
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