We do not charge any of the public schools to use any of the facilities. That's like hitting the taxpayers twice. We don't do that.

The eventual goals are just to have the schools able to compete. It's hard to bring in a kid and expect them to compete right away.

I think we need to address the elementary and middle schools first. Those are safety issues that they are dodging over there.

It's a community center for the south end of the county.

Spring Hill will pay half the land cost, plus $4 million for the construction.

The projects we fund are in conjunction with the administration of the two schools, the superintendent and the school board. We're also trying to work with the Parent Teacher Association. It makes no sense to be in competition, and we're much better (now) at doing that.