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existing staff, and Director Keating stated that the intent is to hire several interns to do the existing land use survey and also to farm the base map out to a consulting firm. Commissioner Bowman asked if the grant will cover this, and she was assured that it will. ON MOTION by Commissioner Lyons, SECONDED by Commissioner Wodtke, the Board unanimously directed staff to apply for funds from the DCA and approved the draft scope of services and authorized its transmittal to the DCA. (CONTRACT IS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK) REPORT ON STATUS OF GOLF COURSE _. Administrator Wright reported that when the original bids for building the golf course were opened in January, the low bid was $1,440,000, but the low bidder made a mistake that equated to $164,000 when he miscalculated the cost of the cart paths; so, basically we had a bid for 1.6 million, which was considerably above our budget. The Administrator continued that through some very tenacious bargaining, we now have reached an agreement with the contractor, which we hope to sign today, which will preserve the integrity of the golf course as it was designed and will do it for $1,275,000; all cart paths were deleted from the contract and the lakes on the sand ridge were modified. That would put us at least $25,0.00 under budget, and it is hoped we can apply that money towards constructing cart paths. The"Administrator advised that we hope to be able to price and sell the bonds April 14-15 and award them at the Commission meeting on the 16th with closing set on the money for April 28th. We are still looking for a 30 year issue, but the good news is that he believed we can get in the range of 71% or a little better with an annual debt service of $243,000, which is almost $93,000 less than what was considered the threshold of making the golf course work. We are shooting for opening the course around 57 APR 2 1986 BOOK 64 PACE 57