Chief Facilities and Operations Officer Robert Sewell presented a proposal on April 17, 2008 during a regular board meeting to upgrade all Forsyth County football stadium fields to artificial turf...
Chief Facilities and Operations Officer Robert Sewell presented a proposal on April 17, 2008 during a regular board meeting to upgrade all Forsyth County football stadium fields to artificial turf.
Forsyth County Schools is currently in a water ban and we are not permitted to use sprinklers on our sports fields. Under normal rain conditions, sprinkers are required to supplement and properly maintain the stadium fields for football and soccer games. We have obtained three proposals to provide artificial turf on all four of our high school stadium fields.
According to Sewell, the cost to maintain grass fields is approximately $35,000 per field, per year. Based on this estimate, and the conservative 8 year life of the artifical turf, the move could save the taxpayers as much as $3M over 8 years.
The attached presentation outlines the proposals and related expenses currently being incurred to normally maintain the fields.
Multiple use of the fields is the key advantage, ie., football, soccer, band, physical education, lacross, etc. without the need for water.
If the Board decides to move forward with this, the new fields could be installed in as little as 93 days.