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Chair Jacobs suggested inviting the Chair of the Durham Tech board and the President to come to agenda review to meet with the Chair, the Vice-Chair, and the Manager and talk through a satisfactory process. vi. Senior Centers {page 3-62 in CIP notebook) Pam Janes said that the Seymour Center is further along in construction and they hope to be finished in December 2006. Chair Jacobs asked about tree protection at the Southern Human Services Center and Pam Janes said that the Town of Chapel Hill regulates where the fence is located. Chair Jacobs would like someone from forestry to look at this fencing under the tree. He said that this tree would die if something were not done. He said that the Town's standards are wrong in this case. Chair Jacobs said that they are going to honor the seniors for coming up with the Homestead Road Crosswalk and one of the things that they also identified was that there was no sidewalk on the front of the County's property. Pam Jones said that she would check on this. Pam Jones said that the Central Orange Senior Center work group is making progress with this design. They decided to go with a more flexible place instead of a full blown multi- media center. The seniors are driving the planning process and the process will be the same. She said that there is some concern about moving the elder day health center to the Sportsplex and they are looking at an option that includes a mezzanine over the ice rink. The eldercare space would require some outside space as well. She said that they hope to get it up and going by the end of the year. Commissioner Gordon asked if they resolved the seniors' concerns about sharing the space with the Sportsplex and Commissioner Halkiotis said that they have asked the Manager to set up a separate group and they are having difficulty getting a meeting with the management company of the Sportsplex. Chair Jacobs said that they assured the seniors that they would not be sharing space with the children, but there was an issue about exercise equipment and sharing of the equipment. Commissioner Gordon asked if the seniors asked for their own entrance and staff responded yes. There will be 15,000 square feet of dedicated senior space. c. County Park Projects Update i. Blackwood Farm {3-7) Environment and Resource Conservation Director Dave Stancil said that funding would be needed far surveying work after the first of the fiscal year far the master plan. ii. Efland-Cheeks Park {page 3-19) Recreation and Parks Director Lori Taft said that they have completed Phase II and they will celebrate this on April 28`". This includes the lighting, the new picnic shelter, and the playground. She said that they did set aside money to expand the trails in the wooded area to the northwest of the property, but they learned that Americorps was being cut from the federal budget so they do not know how they will finish the trails. She said that the lighting portion was partnered with the Smith Middle School soccer field lighting and they saved funds by bidding them out together.