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Southern Community Park: The Council appreciates the recent Board action to appropriate up to $50,000 to the Town for development of a Southern Community Park concept plan. We look forward to both County and Town of Carrboro involvement in the project. It is our hope to begin the conceptual plan process in the fall of 2000. Then, when the plan is completed and additional funding is available, we would produce the construction drawings and build the first phase of the park. Construction at Homestead Park: The Homestead Park Aquatic/Community Center Conceptual Plan Committee has been meeting for approximately 6 months. Commissioner Margaret Brown is serving as the County representative on that group. We expect the Committee will present an interim report to the Council in August. With the exception of the aquatics/community center, Homestead Park's scheduled build-out is nearly complete, with the batting cage facility currently under construction and anticipated to be finished by the end of the summer. As you can see, the Town of Chapel Hill has been making major expenditures to provide recreational facilities to the residents of the Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the unincorporated areas of Orange County. Of our 1996 $5,000,000 parks and recreation bond issue, we have -spent $425,000 in finishing the Northside Gymnasium and $3,259,000 on Homestead Park. (The park includes 2 softball baseball fields, 2 rectangular athletic fields, a skateboard park, a batting cage facility, playground, picnic shelter, and walking trails.) The remaining $1,316,000 will be sold in early 2002 to partially fund the aquatics/community center to be located in Homestead Park. While the Town is most appreciative of the County's allocation of funds to recreation facilities in the southern part of the County, we must point out that allocation alone does not help us with cash flow. We have already spent $145,000 on the Homestead Park concession/restroom building; we expect to spend $105,000 for the soccer field at Scroggs Elementary School by the end of the summer. County children and adults have already been enjoying both of these facilities for many months now. Therefore, we write to ask for reimbursement for all that we have spent or will soon spend on both the Southern Community Park and Homestead Park: $145,000 Homestead Park, concession/restroom building expended 105,000 Scroggs Elementary School field to be expended by fa112000 50,000 Southern Community Park concept plan to be expended fall/winter 2000 If I can add anything to this letter, please call. Thank you. Sin ely, W. Calvin Horton Town Manager