Some of reasons that the committee believed it was important to construct new outdoor athletic facilities included:

• The construction of new outdoor athletic facilities would allow the district to design adequate parking and traffic flow to alleviate congestion issues currently being experienced and anticipated to increase in future years.

• The construction of new outdoor athletic facilities would increase access to facilities to support both middle school and high school athletic events throughout the district. For example, there are currently challenges with scheduling middle school and high school track meets, a sport that impacts hundreds of students and families.

• The construction of new outdoor athletic facilities would allow high school students to be in close proximity to the outdoor athletic facilities where they attend school, practice, etc.

• The construction of new outdoor facilities at the site of the new high school would increase access for community use of the current outdoor athletic facilities.

Some of the reasons that the committee believed the district should pursue a new stadium included:

• The current stadium regularly exceeds capacity during home athletic events. Projected increased enrollment will cause additional capacity challenges as the district continues to grow.

• Alternative solutions explored to increase stadium capacity included moving the home bleachers to the current visitor side of the field, where soil and topography could handle additional bleachers. However, the committee felt the most responsible long-term use of taxpayer funds was to construct a new stadium that will meet future needs, rather than retrofitting the current stadium with costly solutions that will still leave the district and community with challenges related to parking and congestion. These problems would still need to be addressed in the years to come.