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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 14, 2004 <br />Action Age 5da~ <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Central Recreation Center Playground Apparatus <br />DEPARTMENT: Recreation and Parks <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A, Photos of Site <br />B, Partial Site Plan <br />C, Public Meeting Summary <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Lori Taft, Recreation and Parks, <br />ext 2660 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />Chapel Hill <br />Durham <br />Mebane <br />732-8181 <br />968-4501 <br />688-7331 <br />336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a staff summary of community feedback and consider granting approval <br />for the purchase and installation of playground apparatus at the Central Recreation Center <br />located at the Whiffed complex, <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 far 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, The Department's summer camp is usually <br />filled to capacity with 100 children enrolled for each 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 the 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. <br />The area proposed for use is located at the top of the stairs at the rear exit doors from the <br />gymnasium. It is currently an open grassy area and not central to any designated use of the <br />building or the Whiffed complex, Photos of the site and the partial site plan are shown as <br />Attachment A and Attachment B respectively. <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 />