Bossier High School is set to install artificial turf, as well as other amenities for its football stadium, at a cost of $1 million. The Bossier Parish School Board approved a $875,000 bid for the turf, which will be funded by an estimated $1 million that has been “diverted to the field from the city expenditures remaining from the downtown development program,” according to a report by The Times, attributing Bossier High principal David Thrash.

The field will be available for other schools in the parish to use, as well.

Work is expected to begin Dec. 1 and take just under three months to complete.

In January, the BPSB denied a resolution to use bond money to install artificial turf at Bossier High — as well as Airline, Haughton and Parkway high schools — as board members expressed concern that using the bond money might endanger the funding of other promised projects.

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