The grant from the state’s Small Town Economic Assistance Program, which was announced Wednesday, will go toward a multi-million dollar project to add lighting and install artificial turf on both the baseball and softball fields, said Greg Dembowski, Brookfield’s economic development manager. The project, called “Brookfield High School Athletic Fields Renovations, Phase 1,” will add “an estimated 380 hours of field usage each year by adding fifty-six precision engineered light fixtures on 10, seventy-foot high steel poles around the softball and baseball fields,” he said. The total cost of the project is expected to be between $4.2 million to $4.5 million, officials say. The town applied for the grant in February through the state’s STEAP program for $775,00, which will pay for the first phase. The town will fund 30 percent of that amount, or $230,000. Phase 1 is expected to be completed in the fall, with construction most likely beginning in August, Dembowski said.
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