This digital rendering was made by Formetco Sports showing what a new video scoreboard at Harmon Field in Dalton could possibly look like. It is hoped the video scoreboard will be installed before Dalton High School's first home football game of the season on Sept. 1 against Northwest Whitfield.

DALTON, Ga. — Dalton Board of Education members gave their approval Monday night to allow the Quarterback Club to install a video scoreboard at Harmon Field for the Dalton High School Catamounts. 

Board members voted 4-0 with Pablo Perez absent.

The roughly 22-by-39-foot video board is being purchased by the Quarterback Club with private funding, according to Rob Taylor, who is the president of the football booster club. The video board, dubbed by Taylor as the “D-Tron,” will be designed and installed by Formetco Sports of Duluth. 

“It is going to be one of the largest in north Georgia, except maybe for one immediately outside of the Atlanta area,” Dalton Public Schools Interim Superintendent Don Amonett said. “It will be available for use in football games, but also for any other activity going on at Harmon Field — soccer games, lacrosse games, graduation. This will be done at no cost to taxpayers.”

Harmon Field is the property of the city of Dalton. Dalton Public Schools maintains the facility and will have to cover the new video board on its insurance, which is why the Quarterback Club needed the approval of the board before the installation could begin. 

“The school system will have to cover the insurance, but even the Quarterback Club will reimburse us for that,” Amonett said.

The video board will be in the northwest corner of Harmon Field, but it will not immediately replace the scoreboard at the east end zone which sits above the concession stands. 

“It does have scoring capabilities, but that would not be used at the beginning,” Amonett said.

Taylor said he hopes the board can be installed in time for Dalton’s first home game on Sept. 1 against Northwest Whitfield. 

“I appreciate the work obviously of the Quarterback Club not only on this project but other things they have done throughout the community over the years,” Board Chairman Rick Fromm said. “One of the hardest things is legwork and actually putting plans together and coming up with a concise plan and being able to execute it, which we could draw lessons from that. We appreciate all the hard work and we obviously want to be a partner.”