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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 26, 2004 <br />Action Agen a b <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Soccer Superfund -Policy and Guidelines <br />DEPARTMENT: ERCD, Recreation & Parks PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Commissioner Barry Jacobs <br />Draft Policy and Guidelines Lori Taft, 245-2660 <br />David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a draft policy and set of guidelines for use of the Soccer Superfund, <br />BACKGROUND: In November 2001, Orange County voters approved a $20 million bond <br />package for parks and open space. Included in this package was $2 million to create a <br />Soccer Superfund to fund new soccer fields around Orange County. This concept grew out <br />of the Soccer Symposium Task Force report of 2000, which investigated needs for soccer <br />fields throughout the County. <br />Before any funding can be appropriated from the Soccer Superfund, the Board asked that a <br />policy and guidelines be developed regarding uses of the fund. <br />County staff, in conjunction with Commissioner Jacobs, have developed the attached draft <br />document in recent months, and it is provided here for the Board's initial review and <br />feedback, <br />The draft policy and guidelines would propose to: <br />• Identify the purposes of the Superfund (construction of new fields and, as a <br />secondary use, acquisition of land for new fields) <br />• Outline guidelines for construction of new fields by the County <br />• Create a matching grant option for qualified private and non-profit entities <br />• Develop conditions and criteria for evaluating appropriations from the Superfund <br />• Outline guidelines for use for land acquisitions