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County Capital Projects <br />Fiscal Years 2013 -18 <br />Project Name <br />Lands Legacy Program <br />Project Status <br />Approved <br />Functional Service Area <br />Community and Environment <br />Starting Date <br />41112000 <br />Department <br />DEAPR <br />Completion Date <br />Ongoing <br />Current <br />Year 1 <br />Year 2 <br />Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 <br />Five <br />Year 6 <br />Prior Years Fiscal Year <br />Fiscal Year <br />Fiscal Year <br />Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Fiscal Year <br />Year <br />to <br />Project Budget <br />Funding 2012 -13 <br />2013 -14 <br />2014 -15 <br />2015 -16 2016 -17 2017 -18 <br />Total <br />Year 10 <br />Appropriation <br />Land /Bullding <br />6,010,452 <br />2,400,000 <br />2,400,000 <br />2,000,000 <br />Construction /Repairs /Renovations <br />Equipment/Furnishings <br />- <br />2,400,000 <br />- - <br />2,400,000 <br />1 2,000,000 <br />Total Project Budget 6,010,452 - <br />General Fund Related Operating Costs <br />Personnel Services <br />Operations <br />New Debt Service <br />Total Operating Costs <br />Revenues /Funding Source <br />Transfer from General fund <br />General Fund - Debt Service <br />Debt Financing <br />Pay -as- you -go funding beginning Year 7 <br />Projected Grant Funding <br />Total <br />Project Description /Justification <br />230.400 230.400 230.400 691.2001 1.152.000 <br />1,110, 452 <br />230,400 230,400 230,400 691,200 1,152,000 <br />4,900,000 2,400,000 2,400,000 - <br />2,000,000 <br />The Lands Legacy Program, established in April 2000, is a comprehensive program to conserve and protect the County's most critical natural and cultural resources, <br />including future parklands; natural areas, wildlife habitat and prime forests; watershed stream buffers; and historic and archaeological sites. Farmland preservation and <br />some components of natural areas conservation also occurs through the related "Conservation Easements" project. Acquisition of the Bingham Township Park site, <br />continued acquisition of property for the Seven Mile Creek Preserve (Upper Eno Preserve), the Jordan Lake Macrosite natural area and possible expansion of Eurosport <br />Soccer Center are among several top anticipated priorities for these current and planned funds. Currently, $1,549,882 is available in this project for those purposes. The <br />County has and will continue to aggressively seek to leverage these funds through grants ($5 million to date) and partnership funding. Although planned for continued <br />funding, prior bond authorization for this amount of $2.4 million lapsed in 2010, so new financing is needed and recommended in FY 2014 -15 (Year 2). <br />43 <br />