A Closer Look at Proposed Funding for Foxborough’s Turf Field Project
Here’s a breakdown of how Phase I of the proposed community turf field will be funded if approved at the Dec. 11 Special Town Meeting.
When voters review the proposed community turf field project at the Dec. 11 Special Town Meeting they will be deciding whether or not to appropriate $125,000 from the town’s Overlay Surplus account and use the remaining $1 million from the high school renovation project to help fund the $1,619,000 of the project. "Basically, we are looking at $430,000 between donations, in-kind services and the NFL grant," said Foxborough Schools Business Manager Bill Yukna. "We are looking at $1 million that is the current balance of the high school renovation project, which the town has already funded and appropriated." Furthermore, Foxborough's School Committee voted its Nov. 26 meeting to appropriate $75,000 from the school’s building revolving account…
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Dennis Naughton
11:37 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Suggestion: The New England Council of Schools and Colleges visited and evaluated Foxborough High School March 25-28, 2012. Subsequently, they wrote a comprehensive evaluative report. The entire 87 page report is available on the Foxborough High School website. While there was a mention of playing fields (see p. 75, 78, 82-83, 87 for anything relating to the fields of any subsance), it was hardly… more ›