Comments on: LCS Pays $2.5 Million for Turf Field at Lincoln High School https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/ Online News Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:50:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: MIB https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-311253 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:50:43 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-311253 Wow! After the Astroturf craze, some pro & college fields were redone… with crabgrass. Tough, Less damaging to ankles. Not quite so uniform. Cheap. Cheaper maintenance. Then again, they generally were NOT coping with sink-holes.

]]> By: David T. Hawkins https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310925 Sat, 15 Jul 2023 03:58:46 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310925 @ Criminole = The only Ball Field I know that was contaminated by Chemicals is the one at S. Monroe & Gaines. Cascade Park is there now. Leon High School played a few Games there when my Brothers went to Leon before they closed it down. Some of the Rock Wall is still there with a couple of the Pay Windows still intact. It was so bad that a Semi ran off the Road and ended up in the Field and sank to its Axles. Parkway Wrecker was called and they had to suite up ion Hazmat Suites the whole time they were there. It even made the Paper.

]]> By: Criminole https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310883 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:24:06 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310883 @David

Soccer, Lax, JV football play on the field. Varsity plays at Cox. Unless that changed? It was always due to limited seating.

Some guy on Reddit is always harping about these fields have chemicals and cause cancer. Doubt it is true but is always talking about it.

]]> By: Snidely Whiplash https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310873 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:44:27 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310873 I just hate to keep on harping on what must be a tired, old worn out, so “yesterday” topic to many highly respected and knowledgable readers.
But:
It seems like the entire subject of how vendors of services to the LCSB are showing their great respect and gratitude to Rocky for all the technical, time consuming, decision making process’s Rocky engages in, in order to best determine which vendor to award contracts to has just kind of fallen by the wayside.
It may have something to do with “the passage of time”. A lot of mysterious things involving how government operates are highly effected by “the passage of time”.

Back in the good old days we had the highly transparant, totally fair, process which involved anoymous contributions to some totally legitimant Las Vegas, NV Corporate entities set up by Rocky and, I believe his brother, bestowed with the clever nameing of various versions of the name “HAA HAA Corporations” or something to that effect.

Well time marches on as it always does (again “the passage of time”). The mentioning of The HAA HAA Corp’s became old news and just kind of fell out of the news cycle.
Anyway, lets circle back to the origional issue; how are the selected contractors currently showing their gratitude, honor, and respect [monitarally] to Rocky for all his professional, hard work, and going the extra mile in all Rocky does with respect to which of the honorable bidders are awarded contracts for services to the LCSB?
Before anyone complains about their valueable time they invested to read this long post-I tried to trim it down to as few words as possable and this is what I ended up with.

]]> By: Jeff https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310863 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:54:08 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310863 At what point does the cost outweigh the benefits of high school sports?

]]> By: Elizabeth https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310839 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:20:27 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310839 And what percentage of our kids can’t read on grade level?

]]> By: David T. Hawkins https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310838 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:19:46 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310838 Do they play other Teams on these Fields or are they Practice Fields? Evey Home Game I went to was at Capital Stadium on Paul Russell Rd. at the Fairgrounds.

]]> By: Marc Weeks https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310837 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:13:51 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310837 Not only did we lose money but we also lost our community access because of the cost of these fields. A double wammy for taxpayers, they increased our taxes with vanity projects, then devalue our property by taking away a community asset near our homes. Please sign this petition to reopen https://www.change.org/ReopenTracksLeonCounty

]]> By: Pat A. https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310835 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:54:45 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310835 One more bill for the taxpayer…sooner or later, we’ll go broke just trying to pay our taxes.

]]> By: John https://tallahasseereports.com/2023/07/13/lcs-pays-2-5-million-for-turf-field-at-lincoln-high-school/#comment-310833 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:33:05 +0000 http://tallahasseereports.com/?p=229888#comment-310833 Any link of this to the recent action by Schoolboard to reign-in Superintendent’s spending authority?

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