Southern/BOK Athletic Field Renovation Overview

• March, 2006 - Renovation work started on the field house/SPCCA offices
• Summer, 2005 - Winter 2006
  > Final adjustments to the complex building plan completed and approved
  > Architects drawings updates
  > Environmental wastes removed from soil
• August, 2005 - Bidding completed
• June, 2005 - Project scheduled to go out for bidding
• July, 2004 - Surveying completed for the renovation of the Southern/BOK field
• 2.5 Million budgeted by the school district
• The Sports Complex Special Services District has approved $286,000
  in funding for security fencing
• Improvements include:
  > new fencing around the field and track
  > a synthetic field with a rubber track
  > new grandstands
  > new scoreboard
  > reseeding the field
  > elimination of the basketball courts
• Main entrance for football will be on 10th St.
• Entrance for baseball, soccer and offices with be on Bigler St.
• SPCCA  and town watch offices will be on site
• A committee will approve permits for ALL groups using the facility
• This committee will be made up of people from our neighborhood,
  the SPCCA, the sports district, the school district and representatives
  from the offices of Anna Verna, Bill Keller and Senator Vincent Fumo
• There will be NO late night usage.  Lights will be off by 9:00 pm
• Gates will be locked after scheduled activities
• Security lights will be installed to assist security and police surveillance
• Police will have a key to the facility
• Stella Maris, Neumann/Goretti will be the primary users
• The field will continue to be available to the immediate neighborhood
  for walking and jogging
• Read the full history of this project

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