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County Manager's Report — April 16, 2018 Ongoing Projects Colon Road Water — On April 4, a Community Meeting with the residents who are impacted by this project was held in the Gordon Wicker Room. At the meeting, the process for construction, signing up with the City of Sanford for water service and other items were discussed. Several residents needed to sign easement agreements so that the water lines could be extended to them and their neighbors. In addition, each resident was also asked to sign an access agreement so that the contractor could extend the waterlines to each structure. Construction will begin in the next week. The targeted completion date has been extended to the middle of June. Courthouse Renovations — Moseley Architects continues to work on the preliminary report. We expect to present the report to the Commissioners at one of the May regular meetings. Then we will hold meetings with the departments and agencies to review the preliminary report. We expect the Moseley will begin design work in June and are targeting a fall construction start up. Parks and Recreation Master Plan — Withers and Ravenel continues to work on the Master Plans for Kiwanis Children Park, OT Sloan, Horton and Temple parks. With the acquisition of the Lett Family Park in Broadway, we will be adding this park to the planning process. We did meet with the architect and the City of Sanford at Kiwanis Children's Park to discuss the City's extension of the greenway system through the park. This discussion raised the possibility of the City deeding the Jaycee Hut property to the County for use in the planning process. The City is discussing a request, which I put forward to them to allow us to use this property. Wicker School/Courthouse/Parks and Recreation Bonds — The bond rating agencies affirmed the rating increase the County received last year during the sale of the CCCC bonds. Sale of the bonds are scheduled for April 18. The County is then scheduled to close on the purchase of the Wicker School on April 24. Closing on the bonds (when the county receives the bond proceeds) will occur on May 2. Other Items 2018-19 Budget Process — We have received all internal budget requests. All reviews have been completed for the internal Departments. We are beginning the review of outside agency requests including CCCC, SAGA and other non -profits. The only request we not received yet is the LCBOE. The LCBOE continues to work through their budget request. Per our discussion at the last meeting, in May we will schedule