Campbell County Schools will spend $6 million to finish its high school athletic complex and add 315 parking spaces.

Board of Education members are scheduled to review and approve construction company bids for the project at a special meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at 51 Orchard Lane, Alexandria.

Construction is expected to begin in October on a 13,000-square-foot field house, tennis courts and a new parking lot to finish Campbell County High School’s campus south of Alexandria, said Superintendent David A. Rust.

A late June or July 2017 completion date is planned.

“We want it ready for the next football season,” he said.

A new concession stand, more restrooms and another ticket booth will be built to alleviate congestion, Rust said.

Building a new parking lot will create a second entrance to the stadium from old U.S. 27.

Friday night football turns old U.S. 27, now a side road, into an impromptu parking lot on game nights.

“Friday night we’ve got Highlands High School,” Rust said. “We will have to hire extra county police officers and they actually will park people on old U.S. 27.”

Building a field house, the biggest part of the project, will create a 20-yard indoor practice field football, baseball and soccer and cheer leaders will use.

Lockers will give tennis and other teams space inside the new field house to store their belongings. A small exercise area and training room will be included. New field house storage areas will allow expansion of a small weight room inside the high school, he said.

Tennis players will net a new home from the project. High school tennis teams currently play on courts at the middle school.

“We’re going to add six tennis courts so we’ll be able to hold a meet,” he said.

Playing home tennis games at the middle school, which was once the district’s high school, is confusing for visiting teams, Rust said. The middle school is several miles north of the high school on U.S. 27 in Alexandria.

Renovating the deteriorating tennis courts at the middle school is a possibility, Rust said.

The district has demolished the stands at the former high school stadium behind the middle school.

Preserving older parts of the middle school is a priority, he said.

Construction bids are being sought to replace skylights in the old high school gymnasium at the middle school. Middle school students use the gymnasium now.

“That gym at the middle school, it’s almost like Mecca, per se, it’s not going anywhere,” Rust said. “We need to make sure we take care of it.”

 

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