9/26/07 * Daily Progress [full story]
Donor offers $1.5 million to 4 high schools
A potential donor is willing to contribute $1.5 million toward the purchase of synthetic turf fields for four area high schools - Albemarle, Charlottesville, Monticello and Western Albemarle.
Diane Behrens, the Albemarle school division’s executive director of support services, would not identify the potential donor until the project is approved.
According to information that will be presented to the county School Board on Thursday, each school would receive $375,000 - nearly half the estimated cost of a turf field - from the donor. The rest of the money would be covered by private donations, partnerships and fundraising at each high school.
“I think it is very exciting that people in the community are willing to support this with major contributions,” School Board member Brian Wheeler said. “Now the challenge is going to be whether there is enough support to fully fund” the projects.
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