Picken County's School Funds

School is out but sports are on the agenda of the Picken county's school board meeting.

School's out, but sports is on the agenda at tonight's pickens county school board meeting.

Gordo high school is requesting money from the emergency fund to make repairs to its football field..

Bobby martinez was in pickens county today where he spoke to some residents and school board members... about the request and how the district should move forward..

Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars..

That is the estimated cost to fix the repairs here at the gordo high school football stadium.

And according to frankie spencer, a school board member on the pickens county school district.

He believes that money should be used to address urgent repairs in the school district.

"all of sudden another 650 thousand dollars was found and they going to take 350 thousand dollars to repair a football field..."

To spencer...its not that he is against fixing the field..

Money should be used to address wcbi also reached out gordo high school principal mark capps regarding the request... but have yet to hear back.