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management of soccer fields, rather than field construction. The organization representatives indicated that raisuig funds and in-kind services for field upkeep and management were more doable, in their opinion, than the larger "up-front" capital investments that would be needed for field construction.. Issue #2 Matcluna Grants from the Soccer Superfund for Field Construction This possibility was addressed in the proposed Soccer Superfund Guidelines, received by the Board of February 2nd and adopted on March 16. This concept would create a mechanism whereby qualifying organizations would be able to apply for funding assistance (as funds are available) from the County's Soccer Superfund to assist with field construction or land acquisition.. The ultimate approval of the Soccer Superfund guidelines included a matching grant progranz, but for other public agencies only, However, this project was initiated prior to the Soccer Superfund guidelines, so it is uncleaz whether the guidelines would apply to potential matching grants for this project. Discussion with the soccer organizations to date has generated little no interest in pazticipating in the field construction. Issue # 3 Economies of Scale in Multiple Field Construction As the bids were received for Maple View Field, and staff analyzed the reasons for the higher than anticipated costs, one of the points noted was the lack of economies of scale that might be seen for construction of a single stand-alone field as opposed to building multiple fields. hr general, a single stand-alone field built to full-size standazds requires pazking, landscaping, grading and other costs that were all attributable to the single field, driving the cost per field upward, Consensus among both staff and outside design and pazk construction colleagues was that the construction of multiple fields (as in a pazk) tends to create a lower cost "per field," as grading, parking, lighting and other amenities costs can be shared and allocated among multiple fields, making for a lower "per field" cost. Staff contacted a number of different local govenunents and soccer organizations to attempt to quantify this generally-accepted concept. Organizations and local governments that have built multi-field groupings all agreed that cost savings were realized when all grading was done at one time, and when lighting fixtures were shared by multiple fields, but none were able to quantify exactly how much was saved. Two examples that maybe of help as compazisons are Greensboro's Bryan Pazlc soccer complex, and the Capital Area Soccer League (or CASL,) complexes in Morrisville and Raleigh.