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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 6, 2010 <br />Action Age a <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Planned Joint Summer Camp with Chapel Hill-Carrboro Y <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, <br />Parks and Recreation <br />(DEAPR), County Manager <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y!N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Joint Summer Camp Proposal <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Clifton, County Manager, <br />245-2300 <br />David Stancil, DEAPR, 245-2510 <br />Lori Taft, DEAPR, 245-2660 <br />PURPOSE: To present plans fora 2011 summer camp collaborative venture between the <br />Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Y. <br />BACKGROUND: Over the past several months, management and staff have been looking for <br />ways to engage community non-profit organizations in collaboration on new and creative ways <br />to provide services. <br />Management and staff have worked with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Y to explore areas of mutual <br />interest for a pilot project program. Upon review of programs and needs, a proposal has been <br />drafted and reviewed to have the County and the Y work together on a Summer Day Camp <br />program to run throughout the summer of 2011. In 2007, Orange County ended its general <br />summer camp due to financial considerations and has not offered it since, although community <br />interest has been expressed. Given the Y's long experience with summer camps, and the <br />County's belief that an offering of this type would be well-received, this camp was been selected <br />as a pilot project. <br />As outlined in the attachment, Orange County will make available the Efland-Cheeks <br />Community Center and Park for aseven-week summer camp program. The camp will be <br />offered to rising first-grade to rising seventh-grade children. The cost will be $120 per session, <br />and will offer arts and crafts, sports and games, themed events, archery, skits and songs, <br />among other activities. Financial assistance (through Y and Department of Social Services' <br />scholarships to eligible families) for the camp would be available, and transportation via YMCA <br />bus will also be provided (one stop will be the Department of Social Services' parking lot in <br />Hillsborough). The camp would run weekly from 8:00 am - 6:00 pm from June 27 to August 19. <br />