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REPORT ON GIFFORD COMMUNITY BUILDING SITE Commissioner Bird reviewed the following memo: TO: Board of County DATE: June 5, 19 8 4 FILE: Commissioners SUBJECT: Gifford Community Building FROM: Richard N. Bird, REFERENCES: Commissioner For approximately one year, I have been working with leaders of the Gifford community and the Gifford Progressive Civic League on a project that would culminate in the building of a Gifford. Community Building. I have secured the voluntary services of Architect Charles Block to design the building; and in searching for a suitable site, I recently approached the Town of Indian River Shores with the idea of their making two acres of the Gifford Park site available to the County as a building site for the Community Building. As you have probably heard, the Town Council did vote unanimously recently to donate two acres of the park land to the County for the above purpose. This two acres would be located at the northeast corner of the Park adjacent to Lindsey Road. It is my feeling that we should accept this donation of land and be prepared to then convey ownership of this parcel to the Progressive Civic League once their development plans are finalized and funds are available for the Community Building. I feel that the residents of the Gifford community should own and operate this facility either through the Progressive Civic League or some other organization. Their leadership has indicated to me that this would also be their desire, and with the above thoughts in mind, I would recommend that the Board of County Commissioners instruct our County Attorney to work with the Attorney for the Town of Indian River Shores to accomplish the conveyance of the above property at the earliest possible date. I understand that there will be certain reverter clauses and other reservations that will come as a part of the transfer of land. A part of this procedure will require that the property will be surveyed by our County survey crew. Once this survey is completed, I will need to pass this -information along to Charles Block so that he might proceed further with construction plans for the building and an overall site plan. I believe that the above location is the best that has been made available to the Gifford community and that the site ties in well with the existing Park being developed there. I can envision a tremendous amount of use of the building and the adjacent recreational facilities for many community outings and activities. I urge you to support these recommendations and to expedite this matter further. 92 BACK 157 FACE387 JUN 6 7984