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Jellico Head Football Coach Brent Peel (left), along with several parents and students from Jellico attended Wednesday’s special called BOE meeting.
By Charlotte Underwood
JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF) – It took less than a minute for Campbell County School Board members to approve a budget amendment realigning funds for the Jellico High School Football field turf project during a special-called meeting on Wednesday afternoon. According to School Board Chairman Steve Morgan, the project could still be completed in time for the start of school in August.
“The only thing that could delay it would be weather,” Morgan said in a short interview after the meeting.
The Campbell County Board of Education held a special called meeting on Wednesday evening, approving a budget amendment to realign funds for the Jellico Turf project.
According to budget amendment 5-3, “the cost estimate for the turf project at the Jellico High School Football field for a multi-purpose field is greater than anticipated and it is the desire to rescind the actions regarding the Jellico Field House project and realign those funds to enable implementation of the turf project.” The amendment realigns $300,000 that had been set aside for renovations to the field house and the concession stand at Jellico High School to go towards the installation of turf. These funds will be added to the $550,000 that had already been set aside and should cover the cost of the $850,000 turf project.
The motion failed at last week’s board of education meeting for lack of enough votes.
School board members Lisa Fields, Brent Lester, Sharon Ridenour, Josh James, Randy Heatherly, and Steve Morgan unanimously approved the budget amendment on Wednesday afternoon, with the whole meeting lasting just a few minutes. Board members Jeff Miller, Crystal Creekmore, Johnny Byrge and Ronnie Lasley were absent from the meeting.
Jellico Head Football Coach Brent Peel, along with several others representing the Jellico community, attended the meeting.
After the meeting was over, Morgan thanked his fellow board members for their support, and he and other board members told those in attendance from Jellico that “they deserved” the new turf and the upgrades.
In the foreground, Campbell County Board of Education Chairman Steve Morgan, left, talks with a Jellico student after Wednesday’s special called meeting. Background, BOE member Brent Lester, left, talks with Jellico Coach Brent Peel. BOE members approved to realign funds for the Jellico turf project, giving it the green light for possible completion by school’s start.
After the brief meeting was over, Morgan said the project was expected to start as soon as in “days or weeks” and that once it began, it would only take around “three weeks for it to be completed.”
Morgan said he was excited for Jellico High School and this project.
“This is exciting stuff and I want to say thank you to my fellow board members for supporting this; you know, sometimes over there (in Jellico) we feel like they don’t care about us, but they do,” Morgan said. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 05/23/2024-6AM)
It seems we have a lot of commissioners and school board members who are absent a lot of the time. If they don’t want to do the job then they should quit, and forget about talking to any of them, don’t won’t return your call!!!