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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 23, 2005 <br />Action Agen~ ~- <br />Item No. .J "I <br />SUBJECT: Chapel Hill-Orange County Parks Planning Committee (PPC) <br />Recommendations on the Southern Community Park and Homestead Aquatics <br />Center <br />DEPARTMENT: Recreation and Parks <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A) Aquatics Center Memo <br />B) Southern Community Park Memo <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Lori Taft, Recreation and Parks, ext <br />2660 <br />Dave Stancil, ERCD, ext 2590 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive an update and consider support of recommendations made by the <br />Parks Planning Committee involving the Southern Community Park and the Homestead <br />Aquatics Center, allowing planners for these projects to continue with work over the summer. <br />BACKGROUND: The Parks Planning Committee (PPC) includes representatives of the Chapel <br />Ftill Town Council and the Orange County Board of Commissioners and meets periodically tc <br />review and make recommendations on Town projects that involve County funding assistance, <br />The substantive information for consideration this evening involves the energy sustainable <br />elements of the Aquatics Center project and the receipt of $500,000 in Parks and Recreation <br />Trust Fund (PARTF) grant funding far the Southern Community Park, and the selection of <br />facilities that could be included in addition to previously selected phase I components, <br />Aquatics Center <br />'T'his project involves the construction of an aquatics center within Homestead Park, Currently <br />the building program includes two tanks, Iccker reams, and a small meeting room. The main <br />tank would be a 25-meter X 25-yard lap pool, The second would be a 25~~meter X 10-yard tank <br />that would include a zero entry ramp and would likely be set at warmer temperatures for youth, <br />elderly, and mobility challenged persons. <br />On April 19, the PPC agreed to recommend that the Town build a facility that would contain two <br />tanks but would also be about 3,000 SF smaller in size than the original design, This action was <br />taken so that thetwo-tank option could be built within the project's budget of $5,513,000 (This <br />budget figure assumes that the Town will not seek LEED certification), On April 28, this <br />