Dr. Steve Highlander speaks Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, at the Hamilton County Department of Education.Hamilton County school board chairman Steve Highlander wore a purple tie to the County Commission meeting Tuesday morning in a show of support for a proposed new track at Central High School.
But the Purple Pounders won’t be getting a new track. At least not yet.
The commission voted 5-4 to indefinitely table a resolution that would have authorized $500,000 in county credit to replace the Central High School/Brown Middle School track.
In doing so, commissioners handed the baton back to Highlander and the school board, asking the board once again for a list of spending priorities and expressing that they would like a say in how money from the looming sale of the old East Brainerd School is spent.
Commissioners Jim Fields, Greg Martin, Warren Mackey, Greg Beck and Joe Graham voted in favor of tabling the track project.