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ICABARRUSCOUN~I <br /> <br />NO,IH ~AROtI~A <br /> <br />January 14, 2003 <br /> <br />To <br /> <br />Mr John Day, Intenm Cabarrus County Manager <br />Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br /> <br />From <br /> <br />Mr Steve L Little, D~rector <br />Cabarrus County Parks and Recreation Department <br /> <br />Subject <br /> <br />Collaborative Partnership Request to Fund Park Facd~ty at W~necoff <br />School <br /> <br /> Over the past twenty years, Cabarrus County Parks and P, ecreabon Department <br />has ubhzed a variety of collaborative partnerships to fund Parks and Recreabon Capital <br />Improvements Because of th~s ws~onary approach, we have been able to expand <br />services to needed areas of the County The volunteer youth athlebc assoc~abons <br />have been the hfeblood of the Cabarrus County youth athlebc programs An excellent <br />example of th~s volunteerism and ded~cabon ~s the effort that W~necoff Youth League <br />has shown ~n fundra~s~ng for the new mulbpurpose budding at the Park at W~necoff <br />School The W~necoff Youth League has raised over $108,440 toward the cost of th~s <br />budding The follow~ng ~s the summary of expenditures · $ 61,164 Private Donabons <br /> · 11,000 Funds from Cabarrus County Schools for Storage Area <br /> · 36,276 Cabarrus County Match~ng Grant <br /> $108,440 <br />A prehm~nary esbmate for constructing th~s budding was $200,000 Many project <br />elements were reduced or totally eliminated toward th~s project For example, Carlos <br />Moore, a local architect, donated h~s brae to des,gn and to handle the supervision of th~s <br />construcbon Mr Moore's donabon ~s esbmated over fifteen thousand dollars to the <br />project and a fifteen hundred dollar commercial refngerator <br /> <br /> Carlos Moore esbmated $25,000 ~s needed to complete the budding Complebon <br />includes studs and sheetrock for upstairs walls, upstairs flooring, hghts and w~nng and <br />painting of the upstairs ~ntenor and the complete extenor to match the school There ~s <br />$25,314 m the Capital Improvement Budget approved for W~necoff School/Park All <br />~tems have been completed for the Park at W~necoff School except for turf ~mprovement <br />(joint project w~th the c~ty) W~necoff Youth League has $5,000 to put toward th~s <br /> <br /> Parks and Recreation Department <br />65 Church Street SE · PO Box 707 · Concord, NC 28026-0707 ° (704) 788-9840 <br /> <br /> <br />