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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 2, 2003 Action Age ~a Item No. - a SUBJECT: Homestead Park Aquatic Center DEPARTMENT: Recreation and Parks PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Aquatic Center Conceptual Plan Lori Taft, ext 2660 Diagram Kathryn Spatz, Director, Recreation Cost Estimate Sheet and Parks Department, Town of Chapel Hill, 968-2785 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To receive a presentation from Town of Chapel Hill officials on the Homestead Park Aquatic Center Project, a joint venture of Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill and consider adoption of the conceptual plan. BACKGROUND: In 1996, Town of Chapel Hill voters approved a $5,000,000 bond referendum which, among other things, was to fund an aquatics center at Homestead Park. Approximately $1,175,000 remains from that bond authorization. In November 1997, Orange County voters authorized general obligation bonds for Parks. The Board of County Commissioners pledged $1,000,000 from the Parks bond for Homestead Park. Of that amount, $855,000 remain that could be used for the aquatic facility. The Chapel Hill Town Council subsequently established a Homestead Park Aquatic/Community Center Conceptual Plan Committee. The Council considered the Committee's report and held a public forum on January 29, 2001. On March 5, 2001, the Town Council adopted a conceptual plan for the facility. That concept plan is attached. In November 2001, Orange County voters authorized general obligation bonds for Parks. The Board of Orange County Commissioners pledged $3,500,000 from the Parks bond for the Aquatic facility. In the spring of 2003, the Town Council and the Board of County Commissioners agreed to a process for developing projects using Orange County bond funds. The process is currently being used on the Southern Community Park project.