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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 3, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~-Q <br />SUBJECT: Central Recreation Center Playground Apparatus <br />DEPARTMENT: Recreation and Parks PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Photographs of Site <br />Playground Site Plan <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Lori Taft, Recreation and Parks, ext 2660 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To present information for consideration by the Board on the development of a <br />children's play area at the Central Recreation Center. <br />BACKGROUND: The Recreation and Parks Department hosts 20 - 30 children, in an "after- <br />school" program, each Monday through Friday during the school year. The program is run <br />primarily in the building's Activity Area I, which offers limited opportunity for the children to run <br />around and "blow off steam". These children also have limited opportunity to use the gym, as <br />hosts older children in pick-up basketball activity. <br />The Department's summer camp is usually filled to capacity with 100 children enrolled far each <br />of seven weeks in June and July. <br />The addition of a small playground consisting of five pieces of apparatus, in addition to a swing <br />set, would provide the children and staff in programs with an outdoor option for free play. In <br />addition, this playground, while fenced, would not be locked, and as such, would be available to <br />neighbors and the general public during the evenings, weekends and holidays. The area <br />proposed for use is located at the top of the stairs at the rear exit doors from the gymnasium. It <br />is currently an open grassy area and not central to any designated use of the building or the <br />Whiffed complex. <br />In May of 2003, staff brought the project before the Town of Hillsborough Historic District <br />Commission. The Commission approved the project with no modification. <br />The Recreation and Parks Advisory Board has received reports on this project and is in support <br />of it. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The purchase and installation of the equipment is estimated at $25,000. <br />Perimeter fencing and mulch safety surfacing installed in house is expected to run about <br />