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<br />3 <br /> <br />would eliminab~ the need to fund a duplicate program for A. L. Brown High <br />School. <br /> <br />Careers in Cosmetology and Esthetics are readily available and provide students <br />with the opportunity to secure employment with flexible hours and healthy wages. <br />These programs also lend themselves to entrepreneurial ventures that create <br />more service options for our citizens and contribute to the local tax base. <br /> <br />Cabarrus Cou'ltv Budaet Considerations <br />In order to accommodate this request, the col/ege will need to lease an additional <br />5,000 square feet of facility space at the Cloverleaf Plaza, proximate to our <br />existing program spaces. There is a facility available in general proximity of our <br />current Cloverleaf facilities that could be renovated and leased at a nominal cost <br />if there is local funding to support .this initiative. Projected costs for renovations <br />and lease are $8.25 per square foot (per the J. T. Rodgers Corporation, <br />Cloverleaf property owner). Mr. Rodgers is prepared to provide RCCC a ten- <br />year lease on this available space for an annual cost of $41,250.00, Utility costs <br />are projected to be $7,500.00 per year. Insurance, telephone and other related <br />costs are Elxpect$d to total $6,000.00. <br /> <br />In order for RCCC to ensure that there is adequate time to renovate facilities, <br />purchase the required equipment, and hire the instructors to begin operation in <br />fall semester 2007, verification of support of this requestis needed no later than <br />November 30, 2006. This date will aI/ow sufficient time for the public schools to <br />recruit and advise students into these programs.. Cal/ege staff will meet with <br />representatives from the school systems in December to finalize Huskins <br />program options for school year 2007-08. Additional annual local funding in the <br />amount of $54, 750.00 commencing August 1, 2007, will be required. <br /> <br />frequest your favorable consideration of this request which would allow us to <br />.. extend the benefits of a currently viable program to additional Cabarrus. County <br />citizens. Letters of support from Kannapolis City Schools and Cabarrus County <br />Schools are attached. . <br /> <br />Sincerely yours, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Richard L. Brownell <br />President <br /> <br />Attachment <br /> <br />cc: John Day, Cabarrus County Manager. <br /> <br />/ <br /> <br />t..1-- <br />