GLASGOW – A new sports complex could be in the works at Gorin Park, if the Glasgow City Council agrees to a proposal presented Monday by Glasgow Independent Schools.

Amy Allen, principal of Glasgow High School, proposed Monday before the city council a plan to allow the district to take over management of two ballfields at the city park. Allen said the district hopes to build a new facility for the high school’s softball and baseball teams.

“I thought that we would build it on our campus, and that’s still an option, but it has been brought to the board, the possibility of the city donating some property that’s not being utilized,” Allen said.

The city council voted to send the issue to the parks and recreation committee for further discussion. According to parks Director Eddie Furlong, that committee will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday to reach a decision before the GIS board of education’s next meeting Sept. 10, when the school board is expected to vote on where to build the complex.

Allen’s proposal calls for the district to effectively assume responsibility for upkeep of the fields. The plan also involves building a fence around the fields, improving the dugouts, constructing a changing room that would be available to people using the nearby tennis courts and the construction of a parking structure to help with overflow traffic that might result from GHS holding games at the facility.

“This would benefit our students because now we are able to go to both softball and baseball at the same time, we can still utilize the tennis court, we can provide more security and supervision,” Allen said.

The fence would need to be lockable to provide more security to the fields at night, she said.

“We do need to lock it down, because if we’re going to invest in it, we want to be able to provide security and to protect our investments like we want to,” she said.

The complex, if constructed, would be called the Glasgow Scotties Sports Complex, Allen said.

Glasgow Mayor Dick Doty said the proposal, if accepted, could potentially have a significant impact on the city’s efforts to improve its parks. Lexington-based consulting firm Brandstetter Carroll Inc. is currently working on a “master plan” for upgrading the city’s parks.

Doty, who doesn’t expect Brandstetter Caroll to recommend spending a great deal of money to improve Gorin Park, said the school district’s proposal would allow the city to free up some funding for other parks.

Doty said: “We can invest our money in those parks, yet this park will still receive $1 million worth of upgrades, so in my mind you get two parks or more that are upgraded and yet we only spend our moneys on one of those.” He said earlier that his $1 million figure is a purely hypothetical amount.

Council member Greg Harris moved that the proposal be forwarded to the parks and recreation committee for further analysis. The motion passed unanimously.

Council member Patrick Gaunce said he likes the proposal.

“I think it’s a great idea for everybody,” he said.

Harris said he still wants to learn more about what the proposition would entail before deciding on it, adding that he wants to know what his constituents think about the idea.

“If we’re not utilizing it, personally, I wouldn’t be against it but I’m going to check with the citizens,” he said.