Ptown Playmaker wrote:An interesting tidbit...........I'm being told after all the promises...........the baseball field now has been stripped of the turf field, grass instead......will not have a sprinkler system for grass, (turf was promised so all could use the field even for youth football practice in the outfield area in the fall) no fieldhouse for equipment or players to change, no lights and last but not least....no restrooms............if this is the case, what the #$@! are we leaving Branch Rickey??? The first complex meeting held stated we would have all the above........now, we're outta money...........the 10million is only 5 1/2 million now after the great BARGAIN on land.......it was stated the guy who owned 85% of the property was going to give the school a good deal........4 1/2 million for vacant property.......hmmm..............also no track around the football field as promised either.......since we don't own.....I wonder whether if any decisions are even been made by school officials........and who is actually on the committee calling the shots?
I hope this isn't true, but I said from the beginning that 10 million would not be enough to build what they said. It looks as if funds have already started to run low. I will go on record again as saying that this new complex will be nowhere near what could have been done if this money was put into Spartan and Branch. It will just be new, but it won't be new for ever. What happens when the new wears off and will are left with a cookie cutter stadium with no history that we have to pay rent on. I still have no clue where the rent money is coming from. It just seems unreal that we will rent the land where the old school was when we already owned it.
Also has anyone else heard there will be no concession stand for the mothers club. They are the football teams biggest support and are responsible for the big banquet each year.
