CLEVELAND, Tenn.-The Cleveland city school board won’t be taking the financial plunge to support a proposed community aquatics center.
Board members said they will present their budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year Monday to the Cleveland City Council without Cleveland High School volunteer swim coach Tim Davis accompanying them to advocate the aquatics center.
They like the idea of a center where the Cleveland High School swimming team could practice and host meets, board members said. But they don’t want the swim center to seem as if it is competing for sorely needed school funds and a future elementary school, they said.
“The message loud and clear from us should be our need for a new school,” school board Chairwoman Peggy Pesterfield said.
Davis likely will make a presentation at a regular Cleveland City Council session.