The addition of a new electric scoreboard at Longford Recreation Reserve will provide a huge benefit to the community, according to one user group.
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Longford Football Club president David Blair said the $30,000 funding for a new scoreboard, pledged by Liberal Lyons MHA Mark Shelton, would mean people could see the scoreboard from afar.
“It’s old and it’s with painted-up numbers, so we’ve got to have someone there working it from 10 in the morning to five at night,” he said.
“[The electronic scoreboard] will save us some money every week, because we won’t have to hire the scoreboard attendant.”
The funding came as a part of a $400,000 funding pledge to regional sporting facilities in the North, which also included $100,000 to the Longford Golf Club for solar panel installation.
Labor, meanwhile, pledged $550,000 for the Longford Recreation Ground Master Plan earlier in the month.