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January18, 1996 <br /> <br />Mr. Jeff Barnhardt, Chairman <br />Cabarrus County Commissioners <br />PO Box 707 <br />Concord, NC 28026-0707 <br />(704)788-8104 <br /> <br />RE: LIFE Center Building Program <br /> <br />Dear Chairman Barnhardt: <br /> <br /> Last summer you met with the Rev. Nancy Burgin Ranldn concerning the LIFE <br />Center. The LIFE Center is a private non-profit day care program for the elderly. Since <br />its inception 20 years ago the LIFE Center program has operated out of the basement <br />of Central United Methodist Church in Concord. In 1984 an additional satellite program <br />was begun in the basement of Covenant Presbyterian Church. This satellite has operated <br />as a site for Alzheimer participants since 1989. The growth in the number of <br />participants in both programs and the growth in the need for the services the LIFE <br />Center offers led our Board of Directors to the conclusion that the LIFE Center needed <br />to consolidate into a single, free standing facility with good access and room for future <br />expansion. Thanks to the generosity of the two churches that have sheltered the <br />program for so many years the LIFE Center is ready to embark on this new phase in its <br />service to the community. <br /> Early in the process of searching for a site for a free standing facility the Board <br />received suggestions that a LIFE Center co-located with the Senior Center facility would <br />offer advantages to both programs. It was to discuss these suggestions that Rev. Rankin <br />met with you. At your suggestion, and with your encouragement, our Long Range <br />Planning committee met with Gene Morris, then Chair of the Department of Aging <br />Advisory Board. Mr. Morris presented our idea to the Advisory Board, and while they <br />were favorably inclined, they wished to see a schematic floor plan and site layout. Our <br />volunteers labored hard to develop these very preliminary documents. Upon reviewing <br />them recently current Advisory Board Chair Betty Babb, and Senior Center Director <br />Mike Murphy, were pleased with the result and again indicated their support of the <br />concept of a free standing building built by the LIFE Center, operated by the LIFE <br />Center, on land leased from the Senior Center for that purpose. <br /> With this encouragement and support the LIFE Center is almost ready to kick off <br />its fund raising campaign to develop the resources for this worthwhile project..Only one <br />last hurdle remains to be crossed. In order to insure the soils on the site are suitable for <br />this type of construction our Directors wish to conduct a site soil investigation. Enclosed <br />you will find a fee proposal for site soil investigation from the geotechnical fi,~i S&ME <br /> <br /> <br />