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er Matt Ellen berger said.
The cost for the project would include 25 years of free maintenance.
Ellenberger estimated it would cost about $14 an hour to light the fields.
The plans call for four poles at the high school stadium stadium, eight poles at the baseball field and four poles at the softball field.
Purcellville -based Beckstrom Electric would be contracted to install the lights.
The fights would incorporate new technology that cuts operating costs in half and reduces light pollution by 50 percent, said Musco’s Virginia sales representative Steve Wiley.
Wiley said that the new technology, which makes use of reflective covers, directs 70 percent of fight onto the field. Thirty years ago only 25 percent of light was kept on the field.
Currently the school’s' fields do not have fighting and Rappahannock is unable to host night games.
Rappahannock County High School Athletic Director Bob Czekaj said that the fights would probably be turned off at around 9:30 on game nights.
RCSSA’s treasurer John Diley said funding for the project might come from a variety of sources, including concession sales and revenue from advertisements placed at the fields.
“It’s doable, we’ve just got to find a way to do it,” he said.
The cost of the project is expected to increase between two and three percent for each year construction is put off.
E-mail the reporter at mpelkey@ti mespapers. com.
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