News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
The Overton County School Building Committee met Monday to discuss replacing the current concrete football stadium with aluminum (Photo: Logan Weaver)
Overton County School Building Committee has set parameters for future renovations at the Livingston Academy football field.
Director of Schools Dr. Mark Winningham indicates the school could see a complete overhaul of the current facility.
“What we’re looking at right now is replacing the existing facility with a new aluminum bleacher system, new restrooms, new concession stands,” Winningham says. “Basically it’d be a tear down and remodel of everything that’s out there as far as the facility is concerned.”
Members of the building committee toured the facility with Winningham Monday listing potential improvements needing to be made to various structures.
Committee Chairman Mike Hayes addressed the possibility of adding a track around the existing field, but current conditions may prevent that from happening.
“We’re going to put the track separate, because we don’t think there’s enough room to do it right here,” Hayes says. “We’ll just have to figure out another solution for that, whether it be, buying a section [of adjacent land] and putting it there, or putting it somewhere else.”
Winningham says a new facility is greatly needed given the current state of the stadium seating.
The Overton County School Building Committee proposed removing the restrooms in the current concessions building and placing them under the newly-proposed aluminum bleachers (Photo: Logan Weaver)
“The stadium is about 40 years old, it’s a block an mortar facility and it’s just to the end of its life expectancy or close to it,” Winningham says. “It just needs to be replaced with a new and modern aluminum facility.”
The committee also decided to install new restrooms within the new bleacher system and expanding capacity to nearly 3,500 total attendees. The current concession building could remain standing while removing the restrooms from that building. Expanding the concession building was also mentioned as a possibility.
