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COPY OF CERTIFICATE ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK TO THE BOARD 10.A.3. CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ORDINANCE TO CREATE A NEW "GIFFORD COMMUNITY CENTER M.S. T. U. " (LEGISLATIVE) PROOF OF PUBLICATION OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR HEARING IS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK TO THE BOARD Management and Budget Director Jason Brown summarized his Memorandum of December 7, 2009, providing the background and details of the plan that staff had developed to fund the capital needs from a combination of funds that continue to provide $15,000 from the General Fund for operation of the Gifford Progressive Civic League and the Gifford Community Center. The MSTU proposal would provide about $30,000 per year, for about six years, to fund facility needs. Director Brown proposed to take care of the immediate needs with current reserves from the One -Cent Sales Tax and the County's Unincorporated Area MSTU fund reserves. This would fund approximately $174,800 for the immediate needs of updating the air conditioning system and restrooms, with a commitment to fund other needs over the next five years from similar sources, and continue funding operating expenses in the amount of $15,000 from the General Fund. He also emphasized that this would not have an impact of raising taxes for homeowners or business owners in the area. Administrator Baird emphasized that the Gifford Community Center was over twenty years old and that it had never been updated or renovated. He felt modernization was needed to make it a better facility. He thereafter clarified for Commissioner Wheeler that the 15% Contingency figures in the backup are estimates to the cost, not actual bids. Commissioner Davis requested that all Community Centers be added to the website so the public could be made aware of the facilities available to them. In December 15, 2009