It's not all that uncommon in our area for fields to be owned by the town....rather than the HS....I can think of at least a dozen that my son played on throughout his HS career. Our HS played on one of the nicest municipally owned fields I've ever seen until about 15 years ago when our then AD decided to spend big money on building a POS field that is probably in the bottom 2 or 3 in our 10 team league. Horrible maintenance program (the city owned field has a retired guy who spends 6-8 hours/day out there). That being said, 2 of the best fields we played on during HS were owned by parks....but both in towns with very, very good baseball programs. The town provided the field....but the baseball program provided all the labor. Not a bad deal for the school....great field....both with nice lights...all they had to do was maintain it. Wish our HS would have stuck with that plan 15 years ago