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Chair Brown said that she remembers that the maximum cost would be between $30-60,000. She said that this is a very large expenditure to invest in something that the County did not own. She would feel comfortable in putting the money in other playing fields at other locations and going with option `a'. Commissioner Jacobs asked far Mr. Nutter's {owner of the land) response. Bob Nutter said that he agreed with what Commissioner Halkiotis said and he thought it was going to be a simple field. He does not understand why it has developed this way. He thinks you should just level a piece of ground and play soccer on it. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he still likes the idea in theory and he does not want to discard it. He would like to have agroup -Commissioner Jacobs and perhaps the Chair -work with Dave Stancil and Lari Taft and Mr. Nutter to try and bring it back to the original consideration - a simple field that can be reserved by people who are interested in playing soccer. He said that it does not make sense to put this kind of infrastructure an land that is not awned by the County. Commissioner Gordon said that we should consider this in the entire picture and there are County lands and the soccer super fund. She said that it does not seem that it should cast so much to level some land for a field. Commissioner Jacobs said that he agrees with the comments made that this is a totally different plan. He is willing to try and tone it down if the Nutter's are willing. Chair Brown said that she thinks we should use the money to invest in the proposals going on right now. Commissioner Jacobs said that he is willing to look at this again because it is such a generous offer of the Nutter's. Commissioner Carey said that he would be interested in participating too and to look at the Planning rules to see if these add to the price tag. Dave Stancil said that a portion of the cost is attributable to the fact that Orange County tends to require more things, but most of the cost is that this is what a field costs in this region. A motion was made by Commissioner Carey, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to formally reject the bids far this project that were received in February. UOTE: UNANMIOUS John Link said that the staff could come back with a concept far a simpler field that could be designated as a practice field or pick up field and not for organized soccer activity. Commissioner Halkiotis said that the kind of fields that the staff wants will require water and grasses and these are the kind of fields that we should have. He thinks that we need to be looking at grasses that do not require so much water. He made reference to the underwater collection tanks that collect rainwater that are being used now and asked how these could be used for the fields. He said that County Engineer Paul Thames should be part of any design team. The staff will come back with another recommendation for this field. d. Process for Northern Human Services Center Park The Board considered approval of a process to design a park adjacent to the Northern Human Services Center. Dave Stancil said that there is 48 acres of land on the west side of NC 86, including the land that the Northern Human Services Center resides on. They are also closing on an additional 12 acres across the road, which will provide wastewater field opportunities. This project should be able to move forward rather quickly since there are facilities in place at the center. Funding is provided in the current CIP. There would be community meetings to generate a design for the park. The funding for the project is $1.2 million - $200,000 is available in the current fiscal, and $500,000 each in the upcoming two fiscal years, based on the proposed CIP. The recommendation is to adopt the draft preliminary concept plan. Commissioner Jacobs said that he has no problem with the theory or concept plan but he would like to have a presentation on this. Chair Brawn pointed out that we would not be creating anything new because the center already exists. Commissioner Halkiotis said that this has changed and the proposed uses inside the building have changed. He agreed with having a full presentation on this and set in stone what is going to be done inside the building. Commissioner Gordon also agreed with having a full presentation. She suggested having the community come in with a broad representation for the presentation. 12