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Renovations Scheduled For Tate Locker Rooms
March 12, 2013
Locker rooms at Tate High School area scheduled to be renovated.
The Escambia County School Board is set to award a $659,500 contract to low bidder Hewes and Company, LLC. at the board’s next meeting on March 19. The renovations will be funded with half cent sales tax funds.
Four other bids on the project ranged from $729,000 from Jack Moore and Co. to a high of $804,000 from Larry Hall Construction, Inc.
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17 Responses to “Renovations Scheduled For Tate Locker Rooms”
The simple fact is that things wear out and must be replaced. Perhaps the football/soccer locker rooms are just the first of, hopefully, many renovations. There are several schools with several areas in need of renovation. Some renovations benefit many while other renovations benefit a few. The upgrades and renovations still need to be done to maintain the schools, regardless.
AND WE WONDER WHY WE HAVE THE PROBLEMS AT TATE THAT WE HAVE!!!!!!!TATE WON THE MOST SPIRTED SCHOOL IN THE NATION IN 1986 WITH THE SAME LOCKER ROOMS IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE !!!!! WE WONT THE KIDS TO TAKE PRIDE IN THE SCHOOL WE NEED TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF !!!!! I DID NOT HEAR YALL COMPLAINING WHEN PHS GOT NEW LOCKERROOMS AND A NEW FEILD HOUSE GO LOOK !!! IT IS ABOUT TIME THESE KIDS GET THEIR PEICE OF THE PIE!!!!!!IF YOU DONOT LIKE IT DONOT LOOK AT IT !!!!
does anyone know the last time the locker rooms were ever redone/remodeled/updated?
Or is Don Sutton’s name scratched in a bathroom stall somewhere?
the one’s that object…it’s america, and until things change…and it looks like they might…you can voice your opinion without being hauled off…and/or laughed at on this board….
morgan…
Maybe this money would be better appreciated by another school.
You’re right KKM. This was a bid job that went to the lowest bidder. The school board always gets the best prices for their work. I’ve bid a lot of work for them and I’ve been amazed at how low some of the bids were. The low bidders are usually working at near their cost, just to keep their people working.
This has been in the making for awhile. It had nothing to do the a new coach coming on board. As far as to why this company got it. I was told they were the lowest bidder. If you know someone who could do it and not cost so much then maybe the need to talk to the school board.
As I am reading comments. I cant believe how some of you think. Cantonment Teacher, it doesn’t matter what the school record is. I cant believe you working with kids would feel that why. I hope your school is A ONE. I have a son that goes to Tate and plays football and I am proud no matter what the school record is. Those lockers have not been replaced in years. They do it at the other schools you just dont hear about it. Call the school board they will tell you. Maybe you should go look at the other tennis courts and then complain to the school board. Tate Fan and Bill I agree….I do know that the school does not get money from ticket sales. That goes towards the kids gatorade and snacks and food during football season. Also I know that last year the washer used for Football uniforms went out. The ticket sales money replaced it. Not the school or school board or anything to do with taxes. If the football could really afford it they would have already replaced them.
I am wondering if the school made several requests and this is the one the district decided to fund. I understand that there is a new coach at the school and wants to breed new life into the football program so maybe that is where the idea came from but when there are possibly other more pressing improvements – e.g. the school flooding when it rains maybe the priorities are a little skewed. Also if the money has to be earmarked for improvements (which we don’t know) ask the students if what they feel is a priority at their school. Give them choices of course but come on, they do have to endure the campus daily.
Tate Fan–the only group that benefits from the sale of sporting venue tickets is the sport–not the school. The ticket money is not given to the school but given to the sport that generates it. So the football team makes money when they sell tickets–not the school.
Just because tennis doesn’t charge doesn’t mean that the kids deserve to play on the worst courts in Escambia County. Soccer does charge and they still have horrible field conditions and a budget 1/10th the size of the football budget.
I’m not contesting that sports do offer lessons in team work–but shouldn’t all of the sports have a safe and usuable practice/game space before we worry about what the locker rooms look like?
Why do most business owners and CEO’s have a history of playing sports in school? Because they learn a lot of great life lessons: teamwork, good sportsmanship, following directions and giving them, learning game plans, etc.
Kids need training for the body as well as the mind. Money spent on sports in our schools is money well spent! Just like money spent for the band, arts, civic clubs, etc. Kids need extracurricular activities, sometimes that’s the only thing that keeps them in school.
According to the Job Plans, this is for the Varsity / JV Football Locker & Soccer / Visitor Locker.
Many of the local high schools have either had gym renovations, new locker rooms, or stadium upgrades. Cantonment teacher, what you don’t understand is that football games generate revenue; high school tennis matches don’t charge to watch, so that sport is not making any money. Football gear has to be stored in lockers and kept at the school, while tennis rackets go home with the player. I can’t complain about money being spent on this locker room, anytime an upgrade is done to a school, the KIDS benefit.
Really — that much money for a locker room !!! You have got to be kidding me !!!
Clearly priorities in Escambia County are not being viewed with the intention of providing the best possible education for ALL of the students.
Where does it say FOOTBALL locker rooms? There are also locker rooms in the gym for male and female p.e. classes, just thinking those will probably be renovated as well..
No football, no band.
Over a half a million for a football locker room (for a team with a horrible record) at a school where the tennis courts have cracks in them and the soccer fields flood regularly (and both of those teams have had winning records the past 2 years). Guess we know where the priorities are….
I object to using my taxes to fund these renovations. These tax dollars should be used for furthering our kids education, not for sports. The county should come up with other revenue, like ticket sale surcharges, to fund the renovations.