Batavia Township Trustees are moving forward this month with plans to renovate one of the baseball fields at the community center to become Brian Wilson Field, the home of the University of Cincinnati Clermont Cougars baseball team.

“We’re working on getting a timeline started,” Rex Parsons, township administrator, said during a special meeting June 22.

Parsons said he has spoken with UC Clermont coaches as well as Reds officials to discuss the specifications of the field and estimates of what the improvements would cost.

Trustees discussed some of the improvements that would be needed for the field including leveling the field, making sure the field is the right length, installing nets, constructing dugouts and more.

Parsons said the Reds Community Fund have committed approximately $100,000 to the project, and rough estimates for the cost of renovations for the field came in at around $200,000.

“We’re trying to figure out how to fill that gap,” Parsons said.

Parsons said they will either have to find less expensive ways to make the improvements, decide what the most important and necessary renovations are, or come up with funding from other sources.

Trustees discussed the condition of the field and what they thought would be most important, but said they would like to come up with a list of priorities for the field and determine what improvements are most important for the Reds Community Fund and for the baseball team.

The Cincinnati Reds Community Fund, along with Cincinnati Reds player Jay Bruce, announced that they would help fund the field improvements in May of 2011 so that the college baseball team would have a home field for games.

Bruce committed a portion of his contract to the Reds Community Fund and wanted to be involved in funding the field that will be named after Brian Wilson, who recruited him and was his first impression of the Cincinnati team. Wilson passed away in 2006 after spending 13 years with the Reds as a player, coach and scout.

UC Clermont Cougars had been playing their games in Blue Ash because they do not have access to sufficient baseball fields close to the college campus.

“It’s going to be amazing not having to drive down 275 to get to our games,” Jesse Inskeep, a pitcher for the Cougars, said after the announcement. “It’s going to feel more like a college atmosphere.”

Parsons said Reds Community Fund organizers are hoping to begin construction on the field in July so the field can be ready for the first pitch on March 1 of 2013.