Park Board and Soccer Lights

The Champaign Park Board has a meeting tonight that includes a discussion for practice lights at Dodds soccer field. From the News-Gazette:

Champaign park board to vote on deal for lights at Dodds soccer field
Soccer matches could be played under the lights at Dodds Park by the end of April.

On Wednesday night, the Champaign Park Board is expected to vote on an agreement with Illinois Futbol Club that will pave the way for lights to be put up at one of the soccer fields at the park.

Under the agreement, the club will spend $176,842 to pay in advance for 10 years of leases at the soccer field.

The park district will then use that money to put up the lights at Field 8, one of those next to the concession stand.

Park District Executive Director Joe DeLuce said the district will spend another $80,000 use the poles being installed at Field 8 to put in additional backlighting at two adjacent fields.

While the backlighting will not provide enough light to hold games on those fields, DeLuce said there will be enough for those two fields to be used for practices...

The park board's meeting is set for 7 p.m. at the Bresnan Meeting Center, 706 Kenwood Road, C.

Full article here. Snippet from an additional N-G blurb today on the IFC check: