JONESBORO — In its regular meeting Monday, Oct. 2, the Clayton County Board of Education unanimously approved the purchase of land for the new North Clayton High School.
The purchase of more than 71 acres of land on West Fayetteville Road in College Park comes at a price tag of more than $10.5 million.
The purchase also includes a $1 million donation from the current property owners, School Board Chair Jessie Goree said at Monday’s meeting.
The new North Clayton will have a nine-hole golf course and a 200-meter indoor track.
The current North Clayton High is at 1575 Norman Drive, College Park.
The new North Clayton High is part of the $330 million ESPLOST 7 — which also includes the Lovejoy High modernization, STEM elementary centers, the New Fountain Elementary, the New Morrow Elementary, and the New Huie Elementary.
In other action during Monday’s meeting:
— The School Board approved to name the new Morrow High School gym floor after Mary Beth Lycett-Smart.
Lycett-Smart was a standout basketball player at Morrow and is the wife of Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart.
Even though the School Board approved the naming of the gym floor, the Board needs to get permission from Lycett-Smart, since she is a living person.
The vote was 7-0-2 with Jessie Goree, Benjamin Straker, Jasmine Bowles, Mark Christmas, Mary Baker, Sabrina Hill, and Joy Tellis-Cooper voted for while Dee Haney and Victoria Williams abstained.
— The School Board voted 4-3-2 against the naming of the new Riverdale Early Learning Center for Jessie Goree.
Voting for were Christmas, Williams, and Haney while Bowles, Hill, Straker, and Tellis-Cooper voted against. Baker and Goree abstained.
Straker, the School Board vice chair, explained he supported naming the facility after Goree but not now as she is a current School Board member.
In order to avoid the appearance of a…
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