The Underwood Pool garnered the lions share of Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding in a recommendation made recently by the Community Preservation Committee (CPC). In all, over $2.73 million in CPA monies were allocated over seven projects. Two million of that was designated for helping to rebuild the pool.

"Three years ago when citizens worked to encourage the voters to adopt the [CPA], one of the projects that was an example of the use of the CPA funds was the Underwood Pool," said Underwood Pool Building Committee Chairman Anne Paulsen. She added that the total cost of the pool rebuild is estimated at $4.5 million, so that the $2 million in CPA funding will greatly reduce the amount of debt exclusion that Town Meeting will have to approve next spring.

The six other approved projects are:

According to CPC chairman Paul Solomon, the "seven projects approved by the CPC and recommended to the May Town Meeting met the criteria for funding listed in at least one of the areas designated by the CPA: Historic Preservation, Community Housing, Open Space and Recreation."

JV field irrigation project

Money to provide better irrigation to the JV field was requested by Belmont Soccer Association (BSA) so that the field may be converted from grass to sod. This is needed because the field, which is currently grass, is used by more than four times as many children as when it was first built and "it is no longer possible to plant grass and hope for it to grow fast enough," according to Jim Fitzgerald of BSA. The JV field is used by the high school track, lacrosse, and soccer programs as well as by community sports programs. If town meeting approves the $8,700, the project will be done in June 2014.

Belmont Housing electrical upgrade

Belmont Village, the low income housing maintained by the Belmont Housing Authority (BHA), was built in 1949. The apartments electrical service has not been updated since. The $165,000 requested would be used to replace the electrical panel and wiring in each of the Belmont Village apartments. The current wiring is a fire hazard, according to the CPA application, and the upgrade will also better meet the electrical demands of a modern household.

Butler School playground phase II

The money for the Butler School Playground would be used to finish upgrades to the recently completed new playground at the school. The $66,000 requested would be used to pay for more lighting and signage, more trash receptacles, stump edging around the perimeter, repainting of the basketball courts and hardtop, an outdoor classroom, and improvements to the back field.

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Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick says Notre Dame will decide in the next two months whether it will go with Field Turf at Notre Dame Stadium or stick with natural grass.

No matter the decision, Notre Dame Stadium will either feature Field Turf or a completely new natural grass surface for the start of the 2014 season, Swarbrick says.

Swarbrick says if the Irish stick with natural grass, they will completely overhaul the system not just replace the first six inches of sod as they have done recently. The Irish AD says staying with natural grass would result in Notre Dame uprooting the entire surface and starting over from the drainage system up.

"One of the reasons it's been so bad, we take off one layer of sod and put down another layer of sod," Swarbrick said. "We haven't addressed the real issues we have to address."

He says the cost for a hybrid system like the Packers have is too much to explore but the costs of going with field turf or overhauling the natural grass will be about the same.

The big issue remains time as the project for overhauling for natural grass will take considerable work. Complicating matters is that Notre Dame plans to hold Commencement in the Stadium in May.

Swarbrick says the surface debate is a separate one from the Notre Dame Stadium renovations plans, which are calling for a complete redesign to make the Stadium the central hub of the university.

Swarbrick said he was very pleased with the progress that's being made and if they receive the go ahead for the Stadium renovations, construction would begin after the 2014 season and take two additional years to complete.

"You don't get a lot of opportunities to do something like this at a university where you have a project that touches almost every element of it," Swarbrick explained. "So you've got the academic units who will be in the building, very engaged, the academy who is playing a big role, student affairs, rec sports, digital media, athletics, the administration. All of these functions will be incorporated in these buildings as currently conceived. This has been really fun and exhilarating for everybody involved."

The possibility of a jumbotron being added are a part of the stadium renovations discussion.

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Fulton Bank expects to have the excavated site of its future downtown expansion temporarily filled by late April.

The Lancaster-based bank announced the new timetable for the interim East King Street project on Wednesday.

Initially the fill-in project was to be done this fall. But devising a plan for the task took longer than expected, Fulton explained in a letter to neighboring property owners and businesses.

Then, Fulton elected to wait until Jan. 6 to start the process.

The bank wanted to avoid bringing hundreds of dump trucks laden with fill into downtown over the holidays, when the city has extra visitors and events.

Wednesday's statement marks the latest twist to Fulton's plan for constructing a significant center-city expansion.

The addition now on hold indefinitely could cost tens of millions of dollars, industry sources have said, and create hundreds of jobs.

The fill-in project is no small matter either.

It will take about 900 dump truck trips to bring the approximately 12,000 cubic yards of clean fill (clay and stones) needed to fill the hole.

The top six inches will be topsoil, said Jeremy Coble, project manager at Flyway Excavating, the general contractor for the fill-in project.

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Celebration Bermudagrass has been chosen to cover the pitch for five of the stadiums for next years World Cup 2014 in Brazil. The five facilities, scattered throughout the country, include the site of the finals, Estdio Maracan, in Rio de Janeiro. Celebration was selected for its wear tolerance and recovery and also for its ability to handle more shade than most bermuda varieties. Brazil-based turfgrass grower Itograss provided the sod.

Celebration is a great ally we can rely on to have a great playing surface, even in adverse conditions with limited sunlight and intense use, said Alexandre Vieira dos Santos, part owner of Greenleaf Gramados, the company installing the fields. Celebration adapts and performs well under conditions where no one would expect to have high quality fields. It was very evident that Celebration can maintain great quality under heavy wear, recovering quickly from damage caused by excessive games.

Celebration has some of the quickest damage recovery of all grasses on the market today. This will be important with the amount of games to be played on the fields leading up to the World Cup and during the Cup itself. Championship stadium Maracan already hosted six matches in nine days during the month of November. Even after those games, the grass showed World Cup quality standards required by FIFA, the international soccer governing body.

Celebration will likely be involved in another massive event in 2016, as one or more of the fields used for the 2014 World Cup will be utilized for the Rio Summer Olympic Games. Celebration is available to the public in Brazil and also domestically through licensed producers. Sod Solutions is the patent holder and worldwide licensing agent. For more information about Celebration, visit SodSolutions.com.

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The Associated Press A tarp covers the field at MetLife Stadium ahead of Sunday's game between the New York Giants and the Seattle Seahawks, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. The days of natural grass may be long gone in many NFL venues, including MetLife Stadium, but that doesnt mean the paint and the texture and the surface doesnt need to be absolutely perfect on Feb. 2, 2014 when millions will watch Super Bowl XLVIII take place at the stadium. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

By DAVID PORTER/Associated Press/December 12, 2013

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) It may qualify as a small irony that in the run-up to the first outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl, the people seemingly least threatened about the possibility of bad weather are the folks whose job is to protect the surface on which the game will be played.

It should come as no surprise, since the NFLs groundskeeping experts are used to dealing with the elements and improvising when they have to.

Like the time when rehearsals the night before one Super Bowl put foot-deep indentations into the NFL logo at midfield, necessitating an emergency trip to a local high school field where crews dug up chunks of sod as a replacement.

Or the 1970 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, when crews had to spread wood chips and sawdust across the field and paint it green to look presentable.

None of that figures to happen at New Jerseys MetLife Stadium in February, but there certainly will be more scrutiny as the NFL uses the game as a test case for possible future cold-weather games. For all the extra attention, Ed Mangan, the leagues field director for the Feb. 2 game, likened his job to an offensive lineman's, in which anonymity is its own reward.

We set the stage for the players and thats our job; if you cant accept that, you shouldnt be doing it, Mangan said. The best compliment is that nobody mentions the field at all. If they are, it usually means something is wrong.

MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and New York Jets, likely will make things easier for the NFL in one respect. It has an artificial playing surface, which means the league wont have to truck in specially-grown sod as in previous Super Bowls. The re-sodding of Super Bowl fields has become a science, with sod grown up to two years in advance at special farms. (For home lawn enthusiasts, the NFL uses a hybrid Bermuda grass as a base, overseeded with perennial rye grass, Mangan said).

Artificial turf can be affected by snowy or icy conditions but is a big improvement over natural grass, according to Jets kicker Nick Folk.

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