Okaloosa County BOCC — April 27, 2013 — Eagle Ram Tennis Center Request — reading text

March 4, 2013 Mr. Don Amunds 302 N. Wilson St. Suite 302 Crestview, FL. 32536 CC: Mr. Jim Curry, Mr. Kelly Windes, Mr. John Hofstad Dear Mr. Amunds, The Eagle Ram Tennis Committee has been raising money to build eight tennis courts on Ruckel Middle School property. The Okaloosa County School Board has approved the project and allocated the land on Ruckel Middle School property for this project. These tennis courts will be a joint use facility among the school district and the community. In addition to high school and middle school tennis team practice and matches (mostly against other county schools), these courts will also be used for summer programs, after school programs, and general public tennis exercise. Through private donations, we have raised over $162,000. We also are working with the United States Tennis Association to secure their $50,000 new facility construction grant. In addition, the city of Niceville will perform the site demolition and electrical conduit installation. We would like to ask the Okaloosa County public works department to do the following work to assist this project: • Rough in retention ponds, fill areas, tennis court area, and founder's brick area • Top dressing soccer fields with excess material • Install equalizer pipe in retention basins (pipe provided by others) • Compaction of subgrade • Installation of aggregate base (aggregate provided by others) • Compaction of aggregate base We have discussed the above scope of work with Mr. John Hofstad and he has a set of our final construction plans. Thank you for your consideration and please call if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. You can also go to our website at EagleRamTennis.com to review our information. Sincerely, Eagle Ram Tennis Center Steering Committee Leslie Parker Chris Poate Eagle Ram Tennis Center Campaign Co-Chairs Eagle Ram Tennis Center Capital Campaign ●201 Partin Drive● Niceville, Florida 32578