MONROE — Just as Monroe High School gets prepared to show off its shiny new scoreboards in the main gym for basketball, volleyball and wrestling, there will be another new scoreboard going up as well. This time, thanks to funds from Colony Brands Foundation, T.R. Holyoke Field will be getting a new scoreboard.

“We learned of this good news last week Thursday (Aug. 5),” Waski said. “This is a pretty significant donation.”

Discussions with various stakeholders in the district have gone on for a while, Waski said, “but at a meeting on an unrelated topic last week, Mr. (John) Baumann shared this good news with us and we’re very grateful.”

The design hasn’t yet been picked, because the scoreboard companies don’t turnaround a design in a matter of days. However, Waski was hopeful that the design would be ready — and purchased — by the next Monroe Board of Education meeting, thus speeding up the process. The school district will initially purchase the scoreboard — which could cost anywhere between $50,000 and $100,000 — so that there will be no sales tax. Colony Brands Foundation would then reimburse the school for the cost of the scoreboard and installation.

Given supply-chain turnaround, Waski said that it there is a small chance the scoreboard will be ready for use this fall during the football and soccer season, but that by the spring girls soccer and track seasons, the scoreboard should be functional.

“The whole supply chain is slower than it usually would be. I won’t guarantee that we can’t get it done before the end of the football and soccer season, but I can say that much of those new seasons will be without the new board,” Waski said. “Right now, once you get the order in it’s about a 6-week turnaround, and then you have to have an installer on the ready, so it’s very possible we wouldn’t be able to see it used until the spring. But we don’t know until we get our order in. You’re not in line until you are officially in line.”

The scoreboard is expected to be a video board, which will allow an opportunity for the school to generate some extra revenue by selling ad space. The prominent, permanent ad space under the scoreboard will be reserved for Colony Brands Foundation.

“We can have ads and advertisements,” Waski said. “We have already sold some ad panels for the new basketball scoreboards that we purchased last year by the district to provide some revenue, so this is a road we’ve gone down before — but this is the first time someone’s offered to pay for the scoreboard.”