{"id":85360,"date":"2017-03-16T08:21:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85360"},"modified":"2017-03-16T08:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:21:59","slug":"vwcs-panel-seeks-stadium-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/16\/vwcs-panel-seeks-stadium-information\/","title":{"rendered":"VWCS panel seeks stadium information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During its meeting on Wednesday, the Van Wert City Board of Education also heard an update on efforts to come up with a recommendation on whether to renovate Eggerss Stadium and provide additional athletic facilities at the current site, or possibly build a new athletic complex that would include a football stadium, track, and baseball and softball diamonds, as well as concessions and locker room facilities, at the current high school-middle school site.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant to the Superintendent Bill Clifton said members of the Van Wert Athletic Complex\/Stadium Committee are still collecting data needed to make a recommendation on which project they feel the district should undertake.<\/p>\n<p>Clifton said the committee, which includes voting members Beth Gamble, Pat Jackson, Jacob Jones, Larry Mengerink, Don Miller, Lee Ann Pratt and Chuck Steele, and non-voting members Clifton and VWHS Principal Bob Priest, who act as information resources for the committee, has met twice since the last board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>One of those meetings was with Kraig Beilharz of architectural design firm Beilharz &amp; Associates, who provided site plans and an estimated cost analysis of both of the proposed plans.<\/p>\n<p>More work will be done, Clifton said, on firming up the information already received.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to do a really good job of going through those estimates with a fine-tooth comb,\u201d Clifton said, adding that committee is trying to compare \u201capples to apples\u201d, when it comes to project details.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that, after all the details of both projects are fully researched, the committee would like to get community input on the projects.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Clifton said that, in addition to the two original proposals, the committee is also looking at a new one: the possibility of tearing down Eggerss Stadium and building a new facility on the current site.<\/p>\n<p>Clifton said the committee needed to answer a question it had not thought of before: \u201cIs it the stadium that the community believes in supporting, or is it the location that this community is wanting to support?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also hoped the community would be patient as the process unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a challenging process, because we\u2019re dealing with a lot of emotion,\u201d Clifton said. \u201cPeople want answers right now; we\u2019re not there yet, but they\u2019re coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s next meeting will be Tuesday, March 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor During its meeting on Wednesday, the Van Wert City Board of Education also heard an update on efforts to come up with a recommendation on whether to renovate Eggerss Stadium and provide additional athletic facilities at the current site, or possibly build a new athletic complex that would include a football stadium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 00:43:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}