The Albemarle County School Board will receive donations totaling about $604,000 this evening to be applied to the Monticello High School synthetic turf athletic field. This completes the fundraising required for our first high school to get a turf field.
The gifts include a very generous $325,000 payment from an anonymous donor who has pledged to make a similar gift to Albemarle HS, Western Albemarle HS, and Charlottesville HS ($1.3 million in total). The Monticello HS Athletic Boosters are contributing $201,281.
Our original estimate was that the fields would cost about $800,000 each. No funds from the school board budget are being spent on these turf field projects.
THANK YOU to all the donors that helped make this happen for our community.
Brian Wheeler
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