Community members are upset over a project that’s supposed to renovate the football field at Jack Yates High School in honor of George Floyd.
The community said hundreds of thousands of dollars were donated by the Houston Texans, a congresswoman and several others, but 18 months later, there are no recognizable changes.
Vaughn Dickerson said he and other community members advocated for the field to be renamed the George Perry Floyd Jr. Athletic Community Field after Floyd’s murder. Now, they just need the money to install the field. The campus was awarded a $250,000 grant from the NFL, and a $200,0000 thousand matching grant from the Texans for the installation of the field. However, part of the matching grant agreement is using Hellas Construction to install the field, which costs around $880,000, meaning $500,000 more would need to be raised.
He said they received a $100,000 commitment from Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and around $35,000 from businesses and community partners.
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