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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 3, 2006 Action Agenda Item No. ~ - {~ SUBJECT: West Ten Soccer Center Construction Schedule Options DEPARTMENT: Recreation and Parks PUBIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT (S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Attachment 1. Recent Orange County Soccer Investments Lori Taft, 245-2660 Attachment 2. West Ten Soccer Center - Analysis of Estimated Development Costs PURPOSE: To consider options for completion of West Ten Soccer Center. BACKGROUND: In 2005, the Board of County Commissioners approved the master site plan for development of the West Ten Soccer Center located adjacent to Orange County Schools Gravelly Hill Middle School on West Ten Road in Mebane. The master plan, prepared by Corley Redfoot Zack (CRZ) architects, included development of five full size soccer fields along with one smaller soccer/multi-purpose field. In August 2006, CRZ provided a cost estimate for full development of the Center that ranged from. $2.5 to $3 million including lighting, irrigation, parking, playing surfaces, building and furnishings, goals, bleachers, benches, scoreboard and start-up maintenance equipment. To date, the Board has approved $1,350,000 from 2001 voter approved Soccer Superfund bonds plus $350,000 from the 2004 Two-thirds Net Debt Reduction Bonds for a total of $1.7 million to fund the project. Of the approved funds -for the project, the County has. expended about $967,000 to purchase the land, prepare the master plan and complete some pre-grading development work, leaving an available balance of $733,000 to allocate towards completion of the Soccer Center -between $1,767,000 to $2,267,000 short of the full development cost of $2.5 to $3 million. Attachment 1 of this agenda abstract outlines the County's investment to this point for the West Ten site. During the September 14,.2006 work session, Commissioners discussed future County and School capital projects that would require additional funding beyond the amounts already authorized, and West Ten Soccer Center was. one of those projects. The Board requested that staff analyze costs associated with developing the Soccer Center in more than one phase over a period longer than one year.