Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve Contract for New Lights at Dunning Stadium

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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a $567,855 contract to install new lights at Dunning Stadium. The town will pay about $455,000 of the total project cost out of the fiscal year 2023 parks capital budget, with the nonprofit New Canaan Athletic Foundation making up the difference of about $113,000, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “We’ve gotten good play from what is there, but now it’s time for reinstallation,” Mann told the selectmen during their regular meeting. He referred to the lighting infrastructure at Dunning, much of which dates back 25 years to the creation of the stadium at New Canaan High School. “All the lights will be removed, the existing bases will be removed,” Mann said of the project.

Government

‘The Most Safe Surface That We Can Possibly Choose’: Officials Plan To Resurface Turf at Dunning Stadium This Summer

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Focusing on a time-sensitive piece of a wider vision for the athletic fields at New Canaan High School, officials said Tuesday that they’re pursuing the re-surfacing of the turf at Dunning Stadium this summer. The life expectancy of the turf now in place at the Rams’ picturesque athletic stadium is 10 years, and Dunning is entering its eleventh year, according to Jay Egan, athletic director at NCHS. The turf at the 1997-built stadium last was replaced in 2005. Egan told the Board of Selectmen at its regular monthly meeting that this past fall he was surprised to see open seams on the turf field just before FCIAC field hockey semifinals (there turned out to be about 100 seams that needed repair). “We don’t want to be in a situation—we are not there now—but we don’t want to find ourselves in the next year or year-and-a-half—with a situation where for some reason that facility will not be able to be used,” Egan said during the selectmen meeting, held at Town Hall.