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April 20, 2005 To: Steve Little, Cabamis County Parks and Recreation From: Don Strein, President, FC Carolina Alliance Steve, I wanted to provide a letter of official request to your Office and Cabarrus County Parks and Recreation with regard to considering a proposal, as agreed to by FC Carolina Alliance, regarding the current debt obligation payments associated with the Frank Liske Park Soccer Complex. Presently, both the City of Concord and FC Carolina Alliance have an outstanding debt balances owed to Cabarrus County of $1 00,000 in relation to the Frank Liske Park Soccer Complex. At the current repayment terms, this would cause these debts to be fully repaid by December 31, 2006. As you know Steve, with any new Sports Complex of this size, there also remains a number of new and ongoing enhancement projects to the Fields and surrounding area (e.g. additional entry to the Park, Parking, Common area drainage, Tree's and defined. Walking paths-to name a few), to ensure that the original investments made in the Complex aremaintained; and the use of1:he Park is maximized to the fullest economic return of our Community. During the past several years, the Frank Liske Park Soccer' Complex partners have jointly funded several of maintenance and enhancement projects, like the ."Top Dressing" of several fields, and the purchase of premium lighting for several of the fields. However, there are several additional investments to ensure the long-term success of the original investments. The two main Soccer Complex projects currently under consideration by the Soccer Complex partners, include the installation ofthe lighting on two or three of the Soccer Complex fields, which fills a tremendous void of providing "lighting" to true Soccer fields in Cabarrus County; and secondly, the re-grading ofField # 4, and completion of the "top dressing" of the remaining Soccer Complex fields, which will ensure a that a durable turf is established for the maximum future use of the Complex. The field lighting project will cost approximately $15,000-$20,000 in parts and' services to complete, while the field re-grading and "top-dressing" project will cost around $80,000-$100, 000 (see the related cost estimates for the Field grading and resurface work attached). Lastly, as I briefly touched on above, there are also several common area projects in the Frank Liske, that are necessary to support the increased use and traffic at the Park and the Soccer Complex, which will only continue to grow, as our Community continues to prosper. To this end, the Soccer Complex partners would ask that the Cabarrus County Parks and Recreation Dept. Board, consider a specific allocation of the remaining debt payffients from FC Carolina Alliance and the City of Concord, for the purpose of ensuring that the investments made to date are properly maintained, and to further enhance Frank Liske Park and the true "treasure" this is for the many family's in our Community. \="-3