A proposed football stadium near the park would cost about $6.5 million. The school board has indicated that it would like to help pay for the stadium, as it has for other schools.
If the district is committed to a public-private partnership to raise money for a stadium, the âpublicâ side of the arrangement needs to pledge money, Jones said.
âWeâve never raised our hand and pledged any dollars toward it,â she said.
A tie on that vote resulted in a failed motion. Parker joined Jones, Crowley and Kaplan in favor of the proposal.
The board did vote 6-2 to direct Superintendent Tricia McManus to meet with her staff on how to improve athletic facilities at three schools that lack stadiums â Reynolds, Parkland and Winston-Salem Prep â as well as to estimate the cost of those projects and to identify how to pay for them.