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E V ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 4, 1991 SUBJECT: REPORT -- Proposed Public Swimming Pool DEPARTMENT: Recreation and Parks PUBLIC HEARING ATTACHMENT(S): yes 1. Letter to Moses Carey (10/17/91) 2. Projected Construction Cost Data 3. Projected Operational Cost Data PURPOSE: 1 Action Agenda Item No._Vir-0 YES: NO: XX INFORMATION CONTACT: MaryAnne Moore TELEPHONE NUMBER- ext. 2664 Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 Mebane - 227 -2031 Durham - 688 -7331 To present a report concerning county staffs' efforts to plan for a public swimming pool. Specifically, to report on the Recreation and Parks Advisory Council's recommendation to immediately begin including the construction of such a pool in county capital needs discussions. BACKGROUND: January 1990 -- BOCC Goal Setting Retreat. BOCC Goal set to "begin planning for a public swimming pool" to serve both central and northern Orange County, November 1990 - Staff includes pool in 1991 -1996 CIP; project not funded March 1991 -- Mr. Dan Kidde requests BOCC to enter into a joint public - private venture to construct a swimming pool /ice hockey rink facility (Triangle Community Activities Center). April 1991 -- The Recreation and Parks Advisory Council begins to investigate the feasibility of the county's involvement in Mr. Kidde's proposal. October 1991 -- Recreation and Parks Advisory Council unanimously votes to recommend Kidde's proposal to the BOCC and to request: 1. that the construction of a public swimming pool in central Orange County be immediately included in any discussions regarding the county's capital needs; and 2. that funding for the design and construction of this pool be made available in July 1991. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board of Commissioners receive the report as information only.