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A. Ronald Hudson, Director of the Gifford Community Center, presented a request for the County to join them in this partnership with in-kind contributions and funding for staff and expenses estimated at $110,000 a year: 8/20/96 THIS IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF WHAT WE PLAN TO PRESENT TO THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON SEPTEMBER 10 1996: A group of citizens have been working for some time in putting their ideas together to build a Gifford Youth Activities Center. This is a Gifford Community project. We have a survey taken among the citizens of the Gifford community wanting to volunteer and work on the project. This survey explains the strong interest of the citizens of Gifford to have a Youth Activities Center. There is also a strong interest from other people in our community to help and support this project: Dr. Edwin Massey, President of the Indian River Community College - Dr. David Sullivan - Provost of the I.R.Community College Mueller Center Campus in Vero Beach worked on the survey and prepared it for us. Dr. Roger Dearing, Superintendent of our School Systems and the Education Department has shown an interest and all of these people have indicated that they will set up Programs for the Activities Center. THIS IS THE KEY TO THE SUCCESS OF THE CENTER. THIS IS NOT ONLY FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES BUT IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. WE PLAN TO HAVE A COMPUTER ROOM. PLAN TO HAVE OTHER GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY - LIKE ART CLUBS - THEATRE GROUPS - CENTER FOR THE ARTS - UNITED WAY OF I.R.C. ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER - THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF I.R.C. AND SO FORTH. JUST TO MENTION A FEW. We have the interest of the Gifford and Vero Beach Communities and we feel confortable we can raise funds to hire people to set up these educational programs, however, the KEY to making this pro- ject a success is to be able to hire a Director/Program Manager - who has the ability to develope these programs, a Director's Secretary and a Maintenance Person. We are requesting that the County Commissioners set up a Special Fund where they will support the Gifford Youth Activities Center with $110,000.00 a year to take care of the salaries of these individuals - insurance and electricity- WITHOUT THIS FINANCIAL BACKING FROM THE COUNTY WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GO FORWARD WITH THIS PROGRAM.. We have visited the Grant Street Community Center in Melbourne where the County built a similar Youth Community Center -and takes care of all the expenses. We have not progressed far enough to have the exact cost of build- ing this Youth Activities Center, however, we are estimating between $500,000/$700,000. The Dan and Marge Richardson family have the building and plan to ask the citizen them in this very worthwhile project. 28 September 10, 1996 guaranteed the expense of s of our community to join