Members of the Fairhaven Finance Committee and the Fairhaven School Committee are at odds about the move to use more than $700,000 for extra add-ons to the high school s turf project.
Last year, town meeting approved $1.2 million for the project that would change the natural grass field at Fairhaven High to an artificial turf. An additional $200,000 would be provided by alumni for a total of $1.4 million being allocated to the athletic field.
However, Lisa Plante, Vice President of the Fairhaven Finance Committee, said that the project currently underway down at the field has ballooned into much more. I looked through the plans yesterday and noticed it is a much larger scope of a project than what Town Meeting approved, she said. In all my time as a town meeting member, when we vote on something the article is voted by word. You can t change things like this.