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He said local businesses in the area are so interested in the event center they were willing to donate $ 37,000 with another $10,000 being considered to help make im- provements at the park. Some of the complaints about the event center in- cluded the park had main- tenance issues that needed to be taken care of before they borrowed money for the event center. Mandabach said the EDC also recently found there is a matching grant that would double the private money pledged to repair some the maintenance problems. "I hope this helps show ev- eryone in the room how im- portant this is to the goals we are working toward, and commitment of the private partners toward improving the quality of life in Pike County." Council president Greg Willis asked since the orig- inal design had been re- duced, if the new design would be easily expandable if the project were to be suc- cessful. Sanders said the build- ing could be expanded on both ends. Mandabach said one end has a patio area that lends itself to expansion al- ready in the good weather. "I think it is important to emphasize that public and private interests work- ing together is a big plus for the county." He added Pike County has just missed out on some big projects and the prospective businesses had expressed how impressed they were by the public/pri- vate relationships locally. "That is very rare," said Ashley Willis. Bishop asked if they need- ed to approve money or just commit to the project, since there were no hard costs be- cause the latest design had not been bid. Willis said that was the minimum they needed be- cause if they have two quar- terly reports on the project that are due at the state. Greg Willis warned the county could not do another additional appropriation un- til it is too late, if they didn't do it that meeting, because they were at the end of the year. Then in 2018 it is typi- cally March before the bud- gets and revenues are adopt- ed and counties can get an additional appropriation ap- proved. Mandabach asked the council to trust the EDC. He said it is similar to when they requested money for the master plan. He said if they had gotten hard es- timated costs, all the firm bidding would "magically" be at that number. Instead, he said they wanted to try and leverage bidders for a good price. "If you approve this we will be very fiscally responsible." "We think we were able to get superior product for an under-budget price," said Mandabach of the Master Plan for the county. Jim Gaskins, who owns a steel fabricating busi- ness, said contractors want to have confidence a proj- ect is going to be funded. He said they don't want to waste their time on bidding and rebidding projects that aren't funded. Council president Greg Willis told the group when he went to college, Pike County had the highest per capita income in Indiana. But since then it had seen a big reversal. "We are no- where near where we were," said Willis. "I have three adult chil- dren. They all have decided they are going to bring up their families here. I would like when my kids are my age, they can sit here and say, 'look what has hap- pened and how much better off Pike is." I can't say that. But I hope they will. We have all stepped up and tak- en chances to try to get eco- nomic development to come here. It all has some risk," said Willis. Petersburg Mayor R. C. Klipsch said it reminded him of the battle nearly 40 years ago over building the golf course. "I don't know anyone who would ques- tion the importance of that course to the park." Councilman Randy Har- ris pointed out nearly all the money for that project was private money. The county's input was $20,000. "That is right, we have raised the money and we have sustained ourselves," said Klipsch about the golf course. "We are at a point in histo- ry right now where it is our time. This can go one way or another. We have a wonder- ful opportunity to develop Petersburg and Pike Coun- ty," said Klipsch. Greg Willis pointed out the money for the project was not coming from the county general fund, but instead was already in the Prides Creek Park budget. "This is more of a ques- tion for the park board. If we have $700,000 in there, why don't they fix their own bathrooms? " asked Harris. "That is a good point," added Councilman Greg Mangin. Jan Hollis, who has been chairman of the Park and Recreation Board for sever- al years, said the event cen- ter had been on their books since 2003. But when the economy went south, some of their industry backing went away and they couldn't get funding for it. He said they are increas- ing their camping rates and should be self-sustaining af- ter next year. He also added they may have some small problems such as needing to improve the electrical ser- vice to accommodate mod- ern campers that require a 50 amp service instead of a 30 amp service. However, he said there is a reason they have a long waiting list that takes several years to get a campsite in the park. Be- cause it is a nice park. Commissioner Jeff Nelson said he has been a camper at the park for almost nine years. He said while there are some small complaints, he has no real complaints. He said the reason there is a several year waiting list to get a permanent campsite is because the park is much better than any parks in the area. "I wouldn't dismiss this project over some mainte- nance issues. I would sug- gest, you have two appoint- ments to the board (park and recreation)," said Nel- son suggesting they may want to consider chang- ing their appointments to the board to fix some of the management issues. "I think it is an operation- al issue. One thing that is concerning us is we don't want to gamble with public funds." Harris also asked Nelson, "Do these issues bleed over to this new center? " "I don't think so," said Nelson. Cindy Gaskins said," We look at Prides Creek Park and we just look to the camp- ers, but what about every- one else who pays the taxes on it? This would be a boon to the park. It is just a plus. There are no negatives. It is time to move forward." Councilman Bishop moved to approve the addi- tional appropriation request and it passed by a 5 -2 vote. Councilman Harris and Tra- vis Troutman voted against it, while Councilmen Wil- lis, Bishop, Mangin, Todd Meadors and Max Elliott voted for it. Continued from page 1 CENTER